October 15, 2006
The fifth book in The Lady Grace Mysteries, purportedly written by Grace Cavendish, maid of honor to Queen Elizabeth I, begins with the painting of portraits of Her Majesty, the arrival of a troupe of players at Nonsuch Palace, and the sudden illness of another maid of honor. Endnotes include a glossary of Elizabethan terms and a commentary discussing feuds. Readers will absorb Elizabethan social history and vocabulary as they try to unravel the mystery and follow the adventures of the appealing Lady Grace.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)
January 1, 2007
When a famous portraitist comes to Nonsuch Palace to paint Queen Elizabeth, paint containing arsenic goes missing and a maid of honor falls ill. Lady Grace's sleuthing leads her to the perpetrator of the poisoning as well as to the crime's motive. This light, engaging mystery is full of period detail. Endnotes illuminate "the fact behind the fiction." Glos.
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