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Cargando... A Pawn for a Queen: An Ursula Blanchard Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's Courtpor Fiona Buckley
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. In 1565, Ursula Blanchard mourns the death of her husband Matthew de la Roche at her English estate Withyshem given to her by Queen Elizabeth I for her services to the crown. Ursula is ready to retire from her life as a secret agent. However, her relatives the Faldenes ask her to find their son, her cousin Edward, who is travelling to Scotland to give a list of English sympathizers to Mary, Queen of Scots. Even though she has little love for the Faldenes, Ursula doesn't want to see her cousin hang for treason; nor does she want the list to fall into Mary's hands. After all, she is Queen Elizabeth's and Secretary of State William Cecil's spy so, together with her loyal tirewoman, Fran Dale, and her manservant, Roger Brockley, Ursula travels into Scotland only to find. On arriving, she finds Edward dead, the victim of an assassin's blade, and the list gone. Since part of her trip requires her to see Mary Stuart, she gets an invite to Holyrood where se is almost caught up and Mary's wiles, but manages to stay alert to her reason for being there. A very interesting part of the story concerns a Scottish Lord who falls for Ursula, kidnapping her. He tells her he will tell her who killed her cousin - and who has the list, if she will marry him. She makes a counter-offer: I won't marry you, but I will sleep with you for the information. I almost felt sorry for the burly Lord! The heroine of this tale acts like a modern day woman with her independence, decisiveness and willingness to go after what she wants. Her sense of loyalty to family and her queen is admirable, even though by going to Scotland without royal permission she knows she could be accused of treason. Fiona Buckley is a gifted storyteller who recreates with accuracy an era long gone but quite vivid in the minds of readers. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Hoping for a quiet life with her young daughter after losing another husband, Ursula Blanchard finds herself once again in the service of Queen Elizabeth I when her supposedly traitorous cousin, Edward, is murdered in a clash of Anglo-Scottish politics. Reprint. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I got a real sense of the times, how people lived, died (especially died as life in those days was apt to be snuffed out in many different ways), worshipped, and loved. The quote from the New York Times Book Review says the Ursula Blanchard mysteries are "A richly researched historical series" although I don't know if this is true. I'm going to pass this book on to BellBelle who does know a thing or two (or multitudes of things) about the history of this time and see what she thinks. I thought it was interesting enough that I'm going to be looking for more of this series. ( )