Widowed herbalist Lady Susanna Appleton sets out to save her former nemesis from being burned at the stake. Constance Crane was once the mistress of Susanna's late husband. Ignoring a storm of superstition and suspicion, Susanna deduces the victims weren't hexed but poisoned and races to prove something more sinister than Constance is behind the ...
Lady Susanna Appleton is the independent and educated wife of Sir Robert Appleton, who travels abroad as an emissary of Queen Elizabeth. While Sir Robert is in France, word comes that a servant at his ancestral home, John Bexwith, was killed, supposedly by a ghost. Lady Susanna takes it upon herself to go to the family home and take care of the ...
Lady Susanna Appleton discovers that her husband, Sir Robert, thought long dead, is actually alive. The renowned herbalist is summoned to London, but finds her poisoned husband beneath the Eleanor Cross. Vowing to bring his killer to justice, Susanna embarks on a daring winter journey and discovers there is no shortage of those who bore animosity ...
This useful, fascinating, and complete guide will inspire and delight writersand readersof historical mysteries. Emerson demonstrates how she and her colleagues bring history to life, rather than merely writing contemporary mystery in costume. Her voice is warm and friendly and her tips practical. At the core of the book is her personal take on ...
Lady Susanna Appleton would be content to tend to the medicinal herbs in the garden of her London townhouse, but a mysterious murder prompts her to investigate and reveals that even her own husband is not above suspicion.
In a New York museum, Lauren Ryder is startled to see her own likeness in one of the figures in a group portrait painted more than 400 years previously. At first, she dismissed the similarity as a coincidence, but then the vivid nightmares begin. Soon both her marriage and her sanity are at risk, and the only explanation is one that will change ...
Are the nude spies lolling in the ancient Roman communal baths of Elizabethan England plotting the return of Mary Queen of Scots? Once again Susanna, Lady Appleton, encounters murder and treason, and only she can unravel the crimes in the intriguing year of 1575.
After making her sleuthing debut in "Face Down in the Marrowbone Pie", herbalist Susanna is back--ordered by Queen Elizabeth to complete a new book on botanical decorations. She realizes there is more to the royal request when a house guest is found murdered--face down upon the very book she authored. Martin's Press.
In 1888, the murder of two female journalists in the New York City prompts newly widowed journalist, Diana Spaulding to investigate the handsome horror of author, Damon Bathory in this historical mystery. Although her growing affection for Bathory makes her increasingly reluctant to pursue him, Spaulding is spurred on by her cigar-chomping boss ...
Susanna, Lady Appleton, a dedicated herbalist in Elizabethan England, returns in her third mystery to track an elusive St. Mark's Day serial killer a long apath that leads perilously close to home. Martin's Press.
Diana's wedding preparations are interrupted when her fiancee Ben receives an urgent plea for help from a reclusive childhood friend in the final volume of this mystery series. Working on a secretive archaeological dig on Graham Somener's island off the coast of Maine, a team of men have all been poisoned. When one is murdered in a diving accident ...
Linnea Bryan has no intention of moving out of her house, but next-door neighbor Marshall Austin is just as determined to send her packing, in this battle of wills and hearts from Kathy Lynn Emerson, a longtime category romance favorite now debuting in "Loveswept".
The year is 1577, and Mary, the abdicated queen of Scots, is a prisoner in England. But Mary's Scotland is a wild and foreign land with strikingly different laws: murder is a civil matter not prosecuted and sometimes settled with money. Does Scotlands political unrest tie in with the murder of Susanna's friend Catherine? And even if Susanna ...
Shortly before a royal visit to Leigh Abbey, the home of sixteenth-century sleuth Susanna Appleton, a man dies in a fall from a banqueting house. Is his death part of some treasonous plot against Elizabeth Tudor? Or is it merely murder?
Follows Susanna, Lady Appleton, as she assists the scholars in an investigation into England's claim on the New World, but when a scholar is murdered, Susanna must discover the truth.
Reporter Diana Spaulding leaves for Denver after hearing that her mother has been accused of murdering her gold-baron father in this wry historical novel. Upon arriving in the Mile-High City, Spaulding must brave opium dens, snooty Denver society, and a crafty murderer to save her mother - all against a backdrop of brothels, immigrant railroad ...
He ravished her senses and savored her with every touch and taste....Russ Tandy was still the handsome heartthrob she remembered, but Tory Grenville had to remind herself she wasnt the skinny, tongue-tied class brain any longer! Pleased when Russ asked her to chaperon his daughter through a local beauty pageant, she agreed to help, but teaming ...
In her thirty-third published novel, the third mystery in this critically acclaimed series featuring "girl-reporter" Diana Spaulding, Kathy Lynn Emerson explores her own roots in rural New York with the aid of her grandfather's diaries. 1888 - When Diana and her fiancee Dr Ben Northcote journey to Sullivan Country, New York, they discover Diana's ...
When bodyguard Duncan Glendower agrees to protect the sleepwalking Andrea Lauderdale, he has no idea that it also means protecting her from himself as well. Terrorized by her past, Andrea must decide if she can face her fears and welcome the love of a hero who promises never to let go.
Kathy Lynn Emerson delights in this yarn about a ghost who's anxious to reunite with her own true love. But first, this spirit must bind the hearts of a very stubborn, flesh-and-bone couple, in a tale that is so irresistible it's spooky.
Years after she and her mother had been sent away from Catsholme Manor under mysterious circumstances, Thomasine Strangeways returns and is reunited with her childhood friend, Nick Carrier, now a brooding and bitter widower. Original.
In order to be eligible for a vast inheritance, Sir Grey Neville asked Meriall Sentlow, a recently widowed beauty, to pose as his betrothed. But when Sir Neville received his wealth, he wasn't ready to abandon the charade and give up Meriall, despite the dangerous secrets that lay between them. Historical romance from the author of Unquiet Hearts ...
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