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Old 01-11-2019, 07:53 AM   #2910
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A couple of later titles in Fiona Buckley's excellent IMO Ursula Blanchard series have dropped to $1.99 at Kindle and Kobo US (coupon/VIPable). These bounce up and down in price a lot, but never stay down very long, so grab if you want them.

Queen Without a Crown, #9
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007BEFSP0
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/que...hout-a-crown-1
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“Ursula Blanchard, lady-in-waiting and spy extraordinaire, returns in a new Elizabethan mystery steeped in suspense and historical detail.” —Booklist

November, 1569: Happily married to her third husband, Hugh Stannard, Ursula Blanchard is hoping to give up her undercover work for Queen Elizabeth l in order to enjoy domestic bliss. But when Hugh unwittingly endangers possession of his ancestral home, Ursula is forced to take on a seemingly hopeless, but handsomely paid, private assignment—which the queen considers the perfect cover for a covert investigation into a group of rebel barons plotting to put Mary, Queen of Scots back on the English throne . . .

“Ursula is the essence of iron cloaked in velvet—a heroine to reckon with.” —Kirkus Reviews

“The worthy Ursula is an estimable heroine, and Buckley’s confident mastery of sixteenth-century British history lends an air of authenticity to her cleverly spun adventures.” —Booklist

Queen's Bounty, #10
Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AMQF8UY
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/queen-s-bounty-1
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An aide to the Tudor queen faces treachery—and accusations of witchcraft—in this series of “intelligent, historically accurate Elizabethan-era whodunits” (Booklist).

Ursula Blanchard is rudely shaken on receipt of a threatening letter from the exiled Anne Percy, Countess of Northumberland, whose treasonous plot against Elizabeth I Ursula helped foil a few months previously.

Ursula dismisses the countess’s letter as idle threats, but then a series of strange events rocks Ursula’s household—and Ursula herself is accused of witchcraft. Could Anne Percy really be orchestrating a plot against Ursula from her exile in the Netherlands? And, if so, how can Ursula prove it before she is hanged as a witch?

“Ursula is the essence of iron cloaked in velvet—a heroine to reckon with.” —Kirkus Reviews

“[A] sixteenth-century mystery series as complicated and charming as an Elizabethan knot garden.” —The Tampa Tribune
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