Ursula Blanchard mysteries
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The fugitive queen: an Ursula Blanchard mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's court , Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 7
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Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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The ninth gripping murder mystery to feature Ursula Blanchard, special aide to Elizabeth I-November, 1569. Happily married to her third husband, Hugh Stannard, lady-in-waiting Ursula Blanchard is hoping to give up her undercover work for Queen Elizabeth l in order to enjoy domestic bliss. But when Hugh unwittingly endangers possession of his ancestral home, Ursula is forced to take on a seemingly hopeless-but handsomely paid-private assignment, which...
10) Queen's bounty
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Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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After receiving a threatening letter from the Countess of Norhumberland, Ursula Blanchard, special aide to Queen Elizabeth I, witnesses a series of strange events in her household and is soon accused of being a witch.
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Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2013.
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First world edition.
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English
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Ursula, traveling to the Netherlands to escort her foster daughter to meet her suitor, also investigates whether or not a wealthy Italian banker is plotting to put Mary, Queen of Scots on the English throne.
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Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"July, 1573. Recently widowed, Ursula Blanchard is living a quiet life on her Surrey estate, caring for her infant son. But her peaceful existence is shattered when Ursula's neighbour Jane Cobbold is found dead in her own flowerbed, stabbed through the heart with a silver dagger - and Ursula's manservant Brockley is arrested for the crime. Determined to prove Brockley's innocence, Ursula seeks help from her old mentor Lord Burghley. But when a second...
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Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First world edition.
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English
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January, 1576. Widow Ursula Blanchard is in no position to refuse when Sir Francis Walsingham decides she must wed Count Gilbert Renard in order to build a strategic alliance with the French. Soon after the count arrives at her country home to pay court, one of Ursula's household staff is found dead. An accident - or something more sinister?
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Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First world edition.
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English
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Ursula Blanchard must acquire a mysterious medieval manuscript in the latest enthralling historical adventure. February, 1577. Sir William Cecil has a dangerous new mission for Ursula Blanchard. He has asked her to visit Stonemoor House on the bleak Yorkshire moors, the home of a group of recusant women led by Abbess Philippa Gould. In their possession is an ancient book, and the Queen's advisor, Dr John Dee, is eager to get hold of it. However, while...
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Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First world edition.
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English
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Queen Elizabeth's proposed engagement to a Catholic Duke is causing turmoil throughout the kingdom in the gripping new Ursula Blanchard mystery. July 1579. Called upon to help a family friend who is horrified at the return of her errant husband after an absence of thirty years, little does Ursula realize that her involvement in the Harrison family's domestic dramas will lead to a case of cold-blooded murder. Matters become even more complicated when...
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Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First world edition.
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English
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When Ursula's young son is kidnapped, she is lured into an impossible dilemma. March, 1581. Queen Elizabeth is once again being urged to consider marriage to the Duke of Alençon, a French Catholic twenty years her junior. The prospect of the match is causing unrest throughout the kingdom. Ursula Blanchard however has more immediate matters to worry about when her 9-year-old son is snatched away while out riding. If she is ever to see him again, Ursula...
17) A Web of Silk
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Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 17
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August, 1582. The queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, has ordered Ursula to keep an eye on her new neighbour, Giles Frost, who is rumoured to be spying for King Philip of Spain. Arriving at Knoll House on the pretext of teaching his two daughters embroidery, Ursula's secret mission is to feed false information to Frost to pass on to the Spanish.
Walsingham has assured Ursula that she'll be in no danger. But events take a decidedly sinister...
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Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 18
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Asked by the queen's spymaster to find out what has happened to two of his local agents, Ursula, while in the small Devon village of Zeal Aquatico, discovers that that they both met with fatal accidents and that someone is determined to stop her from finding out.
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Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 19
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Ursula travels deep into the New Forest to investigate rumors of a plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth in this gripping Tudor mystery.
May, 1586. Ursula and her retinue return home from a lengthy trip to discover she has an unexpected visitor. Etheldreda Hope is a simple country woman who has come to Ursula with disturbing tales of strange goings-on in her rural village. Fearing that Etheldreda's reports of mysterious forest rites indicate a possible...
20) Shadow of Spain
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Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First world edition.
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English
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"March, 1588. As King Philip of Spain amasses a vast fleet of warships ready to invade England, Queen Elizabeth and her advisors seek a possible alliance with the Duke of Parma, Governor of the Netherlands. Ursula Stannard finds herself plunged into a hotbed of intrigue and rumour at the Duke of Parma's court, a place where no one is to be trusted"--