I'm in two minds about this book. I thought the premise of "Shakespeare's Mistress" was really interesting and definitely admire the author for putting together a 400 page story inspired by a potential mistake/discrepancy in a 400 year old marriage register! There were some lovely descriptive pas...
I wanted to love this book, I enjoy reading books about Henry VIII and his court. Although the story was based on the life of a real person in that court, I felt that the writing fell somewhat flat, due to immature character development, lack of vivid imagery, and missing drama. At a time in En...
The first book in this series was fantastic. In this book, an arsonist is burning down barns in The Home Valley, Ohio, Amish country. Sarah Kauffman is the one who spots the first fire. Nate MacKenzie is called in to investigate the barn arson and knowing nothing about the Amish, he has a lot to ...
Fairly good romance/thriller. A corporate law firm decides to use an Alaskan lodge owned by a former member of the firm, to sort out the candidates for senior partner. Attempted and successful murders, assaults and other mayhem punctuate the story, as well as a mild love story with no sex inclu...
Harper’s book provides a fictional tale of the life of Mary Boleyn, sister to the more famous Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII. The book starts off with Mary as a little eight year old girl about to be sent off to Europe and then traces her life throughout her time at the French Court, as H...
I'm biased because I adore this particular genre and time period, and I thoroughly enjoyed this entire series of books by Karen Harper. They are written very similarly to Fiona Buckley's Ursla Blanchard Mysteries.... almost confusingly so. This series focuses on Queen Elizabeth I, herself, solvi...
I'm biased because I adore this particular genre and time period, and I thoroughly enjoyed this entire series of books by Karen Harper. They are written very similarly to Fiona Buckley's Ursla Blanchard Mysteries.... almost confusingly so. This series focuses on Queen Elizabeth I, herself, solvin...
And it's more of the same. Another murder that seems to have nothing to do with the queen and in the end it has everything to do with her. Once again the characters are far away of what they could be, especially Elizabeth who becomes more annoying (and I doubted that it was possible), her relatio...
I decided to pick up this book because I thought it would be a lightweight reading. And it was light... too light and in a very bad way. I love mysteries, at least I love the mysteries by Agatha Christie, with interesting characters and even peculiar ones, as Poirot, with storylines that tie us f...
First sentence: "Even on this day, damned death so near..." William Cecil whispered to himself, but the queen overheard him as she walked just ahead. The band is back together again. Queen Elizabeth and her court are spending the summer at Hampton Court to escape the danger of the plague in Londo...
This is the only Tudor Christmas story I have ever seen, and I really loved it! Not only did it offer a good picture of what Christmas at Queen Elizabeth's court was really like, it also showed an exciting, and at times spine-tingling murder mystery taking place at Whitehall Palace. All of our fa...