New book with some minor edge-wear, else fine.
Additional Description
The second Ursula Blanchard mystery, set among the intrigues of the Elizabethan court.
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A novel of Elizabethan intrigue featuring Ursula Blanchard, lady-in-waiting and undercover spy.
England seems to be flourishing under Elizabethan rule, but Ursula's mysterious double life shows the cracks in the facade. Ursula is shown the secrets of lock-picking, and immediately she is sent to use these and other skills in a household suspected of plotting to bring the Catholics back to power. When she arrives at Lockhill, in Berkshire, nothing seems quite as it should be: new tapestries are being passed off as antiques; there are strange scientific experiments involving bird-like contraptions; and just what is the nature of the link between Lockhill and a clock maker in Windsor?
As Ursula starts to piece the clues together, she finds herself facing a terrible dilemma as she is caught between love for her husband and horror at his Catholic sympathies. Her husband is an ardent Catholic – but does that make him a traitor? How can she reconcile her divided loyalties? Must she choose between her husband and her Queen? Finally, she is faced with the starker choice still: two succeed in her mission, or pay the price with her life… (from the wraps)
Book Information
- Author : Fiona Buckley
- Publisher : Orion Books
- Book Condition
: Near Fine - Book Type : Mass Market Paperback
- Published Location : London
- Published Year : 1999
- Book Edition : First Printing
- Book Number : 0752825887
- ISBN : 0752825887