Do you miss Lady Appleton and the Face Down Series?
Good News!
Murder in the Queen’s Wardrobe
by
Kathy Lynn Emerson
Severn House
hardcover
November 28, 2014 (UK)
March 1, 2015 (US)
first in a new series featuring Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey, Elizabethan
sleuth and spy
Mistress Jaffrey is Rosamond Appleton,
illegitimate daughter of Lady Appleton’s late, unlamented husband, Sir
Robert. Now she’s all grown up, married, and ready to solve crimes on her
own. She was raised by Susanna Appleton, but she inherited some of the worst
traits of both her parents. At sixteen, she made an impulsive runaway marriage,
wedding her childhood playmate, Rob Jaffrey, once known as “Mole”
and the son of Lady Appleton’s steward and housekeeper, Mark and Jennet
Jaffrey. Rosamond got what she wanted, control of her fortune, but now
she’s wed to Rob for life. There is no divorce in Elizabeth Tudor’s
England.
Estranged from Rob, Rosamond is shocked to
learn he may be in danger. To help keep him safe, she is willing to go
undercover as an intelligence gatherer for the Crown. Why not, when both her
father and her stepfather did their share of spying when they were young? But
when another agent is murdered, Rosamond must add crime-solving to her other
responsibilities. With action that moves from the English court of Queen
Elizabeth the First to the Russia of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, Mistress
Jaffrey’s first outing is a unique combination of spy thriller and cozy
historical mystery.
If you’ve never met Rosamond before,
here are two links to introduce you. For her appearance, as a girl, in Chapter
One of Face Down Beside St. Anne’s
Well, click here
and for the short story, “Any Means Short of Murder,” which first
appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s
Mystery Magazine, click here and
learn how she and Rob ended up married and dealing with a murder all on the
same day.
Kathy Lynn Emerson’s other titles include
Mysteries, Nonfiction, Romances, and Children’s Books
Kathy Lynn Emerson writes in
several different genres
and under several different names,
including Kate Emerson and
Kaitlyn Dunnett.
As Kathy Lynn Emerson she is best known
for historical mysteries,
including the
Face Down Mystery Series
featuring sixteenth-century gentlewoman,
herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton,
the Diana Spaulding 1888
Quartet,
and her Agatha-award-winning
nonfiction,
How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries.
She has also written
children’s books and romance novels
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Emerson’s bio page
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a complete list of Kathy Lynn Emerson’s books and short stories
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Kathy Lynn Emerson’s upcoming appearances
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the website of Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kathy’s
"evil twin"
for
the website of Kate Emerson, Kathy’s other
"evil twin"
Kate’s pages also host the
updated and expanded version of Kathy’s Wives and Daughters: The Women of Tudor England
to read about over 2000 sixteenth
century women, click here:
for
Kathy’s biography of her grandfather, Fred Gorton of Liberty, New York
(and if you’re interested in
other local and family history, including backstory for the Diana Spaulding
series
this link will take you to
Kathy’s Genealogy Page http://www.kaitlyndunnett.com/genealogy.html
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