Author: Karen Harper Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery
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ISBNs: 9780312994723 0312994729 |
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Elizabethan England comes alive in all its pomp and pageantry, deadly intrigue and scandal-and fine feasting-in Karen Harper's acclaimed mystery series featuring the young queen, Elizabeth Tudor, as amateur sleuth. An old English Yule has never been merrier or more mysterious. A New Year's celebration has never looked more joyous but been so potentially deadly. Fearing the Twelve Days of Christmas of 1564 may be the last for her ailing, elderly friend, Lady Kat Ashley, Queen Elizabeth decrees a nostalgic, old-fashioned holiday. Delicious dishes for the table, holly and ivy, caroling, wassailing, mumming, and a Lord of Misrule to oversee it all are in the recipe for the revels. But one of the queen's kitchen staff is found as dead as the ornate peacock he was preparing for the feast. As more murders threaten customs, kingdom, and Christmas, Elizabeth and her diverse band of Privy Plot Counselors try desperately to solve the increasingly bizarre crimes. When the Thames freezes over and Londoners take to the ice for an elaborate Frost Fair. Elizabeth of England must outfox the diabolical demon who would kill not only the spirit of Christmas but the queen.
This book is part of the "Elizabeth I" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Marriage Game" First published in 2014 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Lady Elizabeth" First published in 2008 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Fatal Fashione" First published in 2005 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Fyre Mirror" First published in 2005 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Thorne Maze" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Queene's Cure" First published in 2002 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Twylight Tower" First published in 2001 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Tidal Poole" First published in 2000 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Poyson Garden" First published in 1999 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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