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Catholics Fiction Egypt Fiction Frevisse, Sister (Fictitious character) Fiction Great Britain History Elizabeth, 1558-1603 Fiction Great Britain History Henry VI, 1422-1461 Fiction Great Britain History Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 Fiction I, Queen of England Elizabeth 1533-1603 Fiction Nuns Fiction Queens Fiction Women detectives England FictionPenman, Sharon Kay.
Summary: Justin de Quincy is drawn into a conspiracy when he investigates a forged document that implicates Prince John in a plot to kill his brother King Richard, a scheme that also endangers the woman Justin serves, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENPenman, Sharon Kay.
Summary: In 12th century England, Justin de Quincy, special agent for Eleanor of Aquitaine, investigates the murder of a peddler's daughter. Two men are suspected, but they are rich and the rich are difficult to bring to justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENFranklin, Ariana.
Summary: Ordered by Henry II to establish the possible role of Eleanor of Aquitaine in the poisoning death of Henry's mistress, a reluctant Adelia Aguilar joins forces with her infant daughter's father, the Bishop of St. Albans, during the investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS FRAFranklin, Ariana.
Summary: In 1176, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry his cousin, the king of Sicily. Henry chooses Adelia Aguilar, his Mistress of the Art of Death, to travel with the princess and safeguard her health. But when people in the wedding procession are murdered, Adelia and Rowley must discover the killer's identity ... and whether he is stalking the princess or Adelia herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FRABuckley, Fiona.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCFrazer, Margaret.
Summary: In fifteenth-century England, Dame Frevisse reluctantly leaves the sanctuary of her nunnery for the intrigues, high politics, and treachery of the royal court as she becomes embroiled in a plot that could threaten the throne of England itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAFrazer, Margaret.
Summary: As the nuns of St. Frideswide's priory prepare for the welcome end of Lent, their peaceful expectations are overset by the sudden return of long-vanished Sister Cecely. Nine years ago she fled from the nunnery with a man. Now her lover is dead and she has come back, bringing her illegitimate son with her. She claims she is penitent, that she wants only to redeem her sin and find safe haven for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAMarston, Edward.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARHarper, Karen (Karen S.)
Summary: Celebrating the yuletide with feasts, wassailing, mummer performances, and mistletoe, the young queen and her court are challenged to identify who among them is a would-be murderer who is targeting the throne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARPeters, Ellis
Summary: In 12th Century Britain, Brother Cadfael searches for his son, Olivier de Bretagne, taken prisoner in a war between the grandchildren of William the Conqueror. In the process he discovers intrigue and murder. By the author of The Holy Thief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETPeters, Ellis
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PETFrazer, Margaret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRATremayne, Peter.
Summary: In 7th century Ireland, Sister Fidelma investigates the death of a Celtic chieftain. A blind deaf-mute monk has been charged with murder, but the sister thinks he is innocent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TREClare, Alys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAClare, Alys
Summary: Called out to attend a body found on a lonely stretch of river bank, its throat torn out, apprentice healer Lassair is sceptical of the sheriff's verdict that this was the result of a wild animal attack. But when a second body is discovered, similarly mutilated, rumours engulf the town that the legendary demon known as the Night Wanderer has returned to wreak havoc. Determined to stop the fear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAClare, Alys.
Summary: In the wake of a young nun's death in 1157 rural Kent, soldier-of-fortune Josse d'Acquin sets out to protect the reputation of the king, who had released the prime suspect, and is aided by the Abbess of Hawkenlye in uncovering secrets surrounding the convent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2000
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Summary: The invention of starch has a profound influence on the fashion styles of Elizabethan England, but the lucrative commodity also leads to the murder of the royal starcher, followed by the killings of two other women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAREmerson, Kathy Lynn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perserverance Press/John Daniel & Co. 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EMEEmerson, Kathy Lynn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseverance Press/John Daniel & Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EMEPeters, Elizabeth
Summary: The Emersons learn of a mysterious death that has been attributed to a curse, a situation that enables Amelia Peabody and her family to enter the banned Valley of the Kings in order to return a stolen statue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PETPearl, Matthew.
Summary: Set in Boston in the year 1865, the Dante Club, a small group of literary genuises, prepares the final work on America's first translation of the Divine Comedy. Their plans come to an abrupt halt, however, when a series of murders occur in a form adopted from Dante's Inferno and its unique account of punishment in Hell. With lives endangered and Dante's literary future at stake, the Dante Club...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEABarron, Stephanie
Summary: "May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach, constant fatigue, rashes, fevers and aches. She attributes her poor condition to the stress of family burdens, which even the drafting of her latest manuscript-about a baronet's daughter nursing a broken heart for a daring naval captain-cannot alleviate. Her apothecary recommends a trial of the curative waters at Cheltenham Spa,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARTodd, Charles.
Summary: Seven years after sending Ben Shaw to the gallows for the brutal murders of elderly women, Inspector Ian Rutledge is approached by Shaw's widow, who claims that her husband had been innocent, and sets out to uncover the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2002