The Doublet Affair is the second in the Ursula Blanchard series by Fiona Buckley. It has dropped to $3.99 at Kindle US. This is about the upper limit at which I consider a backlist genre book to be on sale, but this is one of my top ten favorite mystery series, so I thought I'd post it anyway. Unfortunately the first in series,
To Shield the Queen, is sitting at a ridiculous (IMO, for backlist titles) $8.99 so if you like to read in order, that's not going to work too well here. In any case, for this one...
link:
https://www.amazon.com/Doublet-Affai.../dp/B00BOTY2KA
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Ursula Blanchard is "audacious, intensely loyal, and beguiling," said Publishers Weekly of Fiona Buckley's historical sleuth in her mystery series debut. Now, the young, widowed lady-in-waiting is back, once again defending her mistress, Queen Elizabeth I -- this time from a plot to overthrow the Queen and usurp her throne, a task that will test Ursula's sharp wits and investigative skills to the limits.
Torn between her duties and her personal life, Ursula has asked permission from the Queen to leave the court for a time. But Queen Elizabeth will only grant that request if Ursula will first assist Sir William Cecil in his investigation of a troubling plot against Elizabeth -- one that could place her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, on the throne of England.
Ursula's role will test her sharp eyes and cunning wiles. Already, one of Cecil's most trusted spies is dead. As Ursula follows directions and joins the household of her old friends Ann and Leonard Mason -- now under suspicion of involvement in this Catholic plot -- Ursula knows her own life may depend on her abilities to discover the truth in a dangerous web of deceit.
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