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The Fugitive Queen
The Fugitive Queen
The Fugitive Queen
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The Fugitive Queen

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It is 1568, three years since Ursula Blanchard exchanged her work as a spy in the service of her half sister, Queen Elizabeth, for the relative calm of married life. But when Elizabeth summons her, loyal Ursula senses there is more to her seemingly benign request than meets the eye. She is to pluck Penelope Mason, her inappropriately flirtatious protégé, from court and find the disgraced girl a husband, and she is also to deliver a secret warning to Elizabeth's arch rival, Mary, Queen of Scots. Gradually, Ursula comes to understand the true delicacy and danger of this mission. Exiled after the suspicious death of her husband, Mary is now a fugitive queen and a "guest" in northern England's daunting Bolton Castle. Ursula, with her blade-sharp acuity, can outsmart Mary's notorious charm and sidestep treasonous traps while extracting the truth. But can she protect those who look to her -- including young Penelope -- from a deadly game where, to those who hunger for power at all costs, murder is a small price to pay?
LanguageEnglish
PublisherScribner
Release dateMay 7, 2013
ISBN9781439139271
The Fugitive Queen
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Fiona Buckley

Fiona Buckley is the author of eight historical mystery novels featuring Ursula Blanchard: To Shield the Queen, The Doublet Affair, Queen's Ransom, To Ruin a Queen, Queen of Ambition, A Pawn for a Queen, The Fugitive Queen, and The Siren Queen. She lives in North Surrey, England.

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    Ok, yes I started reading these chick books and yes I enjoyed them. I can't say I like the direction they are taking now that the heroine is revealed as a bastard sister of ER (of course she is). And this particular installment featured Mary Stuart prominently, who with all the Stuart line, I detest. I think Fiona is running dry but I'll get another one or two and see how it goes.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Another jolly Elizabethan murder mystery, with the usual and rather tiresome endless Catholic plotting. It's the characters that keep me reading this series, that and the fact that I can little resist anything set under the Tudors. They do get rather samey after a while.

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