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Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"April, 1590. Ursula Stannard, the queen's half-sister and occasional secret agent, has just left Sir Francis Walsingham's funeral when she is summoned back to her childhood home, Faldene House, by her aunt. Uncle Herbert has died suddenly from natural causes, but Ursula's arrival in the Sussex Downs triggers a shocking sequence of death and devastation. Through her service to the queen, Ursula has made dangerous enemies. The formidable Mercer brothers...
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
February, 1586. When the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, learns that Ursula is to visit her relatives in Devon, he asks her to find out what has happened to two of his local agents, who have been strangely silent recently. On arrival in the small Devon village of Zeal Aquatico, Ursula discovers that both spies in question have met with mysterious - and fatal - accidents. Or is there more to it than that?
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Crème de la Crime, an imprint of Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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?
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Créme de la Crime, an imprint of Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Queen Elizabeths 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 familys domestic dramas will lead to a case of cold-blooded murder.Matters become even more complicated when...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"By the Queen's command, she carried a letter that could alter the course of history -- or eclipse her own future.... Eager for a respite from her role as handmaiden to Queen Elizabeth I, Ursula Blanchard agrees to travel to France to help her first husband's father bring his young ward home to England. But duty soon calls. Fearing that the pro-Catholic forces threatening to tear France asunder will spread to Protestant England, the Queen instructs...
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When her young son is kidnapped, Ursula Blanchard, Queen Elizabeth I's half-sister, must take on a dangerous mission and commit high treason in order to rescue him.
12) Shadow of Spain
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 20
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"March, 1588. With England in a state of high alert as King Philip of Spain amasses a vast fleet of warships ready to invade, Queen Elizabeth and her advisors seek a possible alliance with the Duke of Parma, Governor of the Netherlands. But their plans suffer a major setback when one of their most reliable spies is found murdered in the Hertfordshire countryside, shot dead by a crossbow bolt as he was transporting secret correspondence between the...
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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 the Queen spots is the perfect cover for a covert investigation into a group of rebel barons plotting...
15) Queen's bounty
Author
Series
Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Creme de la Crime
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
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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