Cette auteure est renommée pour ses mystères historiques, souvent situés sur fond de l'histoire anglaise. Son écriture se caractérise par une attention méticuleuse aux détails historiques et à des personnages psychologiquement riches. Bien que célébrée pour ses romans policiers, elle explore également d'autres genres, offrant constamment des récits captivants et des protagonistes forts. Ses œuvres transportent les lecteurs dans le passé, offrant d'intrigants énigmes à résoudre.
Set against the backdrop of mid-seventeenth century Colonial Rhode Island, this narrative follows Mahershallahashbaz, the daughter of Samuel Gorton, a contentious figure in early American history. As Gorton faces imprisonment for heresy after an attack on his colony, the story explores the uncertainty and challenges his family endured in his absence. Through Mahershallahashbaz's perspective, readers experience the struggles of a young girl navigating a tumultuous period marked by religious and political strife.
Susanna, Lady Appleton, a dedicated herbalist in Elizabethan England, returns in her third mystery to track an elusive St. Mark's Day serial killer a long apath that leads perilously close to home. Martin's Press.
The moment her friend Sir Walter Pendennis comes to call carrying his wife's crimson cloak over one arm, Susanna senses something terrible has happened - and she's not mistaken. Sir Walter's wife Eleanor, has been trampled by runaway horses, and her dying confession reveals that she has been involved in a plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. Since the lady's co-conspirators have no idea she is dead, Walter proposes a daring Susanna will impersonate his late wife and take her place among the traitors. Now, caught in a web of treachery, deceit, and double-crosses, where there is a turncoat in the shadows who knows more than she does...and who will stop at nothing to silence her forever..
Susanna, Lady Appleton discovers that her husband, Sir Robert, thought long dead, is actually alive. The renowned herbalist is summoned to London, but finds her poisoned husband beneath the Eleanor Cross. Vowing to bring his killer to justice, Susanna embarks on a daring winter journey and discovers there is no shortage of those who bore animosity toward Robert.
Anxious to prove England's claim on the New World, Queen Elizabeth has charged Sir Walter Pendennis, seasoned spy and diplomat, with the top-secret mission. Walter gathers a team of scholars at his Cornwall estate, and calls upon his dear friend Susanna, Lady Appleton, to assist. Susanna is an expert herbalist with a quick mind and wise ways-and Walter has long carried a flame for her. When Walter's wife appears uninvited at Priory House, she sets about extinguishing that flame. Meanwhile, Susanna and Walter find that troubling discrepancies have surfaced among sailors' accounts of the land beyond the Western Sea. Their research becomes intrigue when an eyewitness account turns up missing and a scholar is found dead in his study. Is the murder the work of an academic rival? A jealous lover? A Spanish spy? Scholarly trickery and New World scandal come to light as Susanna's sleuthing skills are put to the test. Face Down Across the Western Sea is a potent concoction, brimming with the qualities that have made the Susanna, Lady Appleton, series a favorite among mystery lovers: rich period detail, first-rate suspense, and at the center of it all, Susanna-a headstrong and beguiling heroine.
After making her sleuthing debut in "Face Down in the Marrowbone Pie", herbalist Susanna is back--ordered by Queen Elizabeth to complete a new book on botanical decorations. She realizes there is more to the royal request when a house guest is found murdered--face down upon the very book she authored. Martin's Press.
Left alone to handle the uproar following the poisoning murder of the steward, Lady Susanna Appleton, an expert herbalist, seeks to identify what killed the steward while unmasking the killer.
In 1582 London, Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey finds her life in peril when Queen Elizabeth I's spymaster tasks her with gathering intelligence on Lady Mary, a cousin of the queen who is being courted by Russia's Ivan the Terrible.
Sir Anthony Shelby lies poisoned in a Strasbourg tavern and his daughter Cordell vows vengeance. Cordell must return home to England, but to do so, she is forced to take safe passage as the bride of the arrogantly handsome courtier Roger Allington. It is to be a marriage in name only.Although Roger was her father's friend, Cordell fears he is a traitor to the Crown. And Roger, honor-bound to protect Sir Anthony's daughter, has no liking for her reckless ways. Yet his heart tells him he must pursue this mettlesome beauty - through a maze of plots and into the shadow of the Tower - to win her love and ignite their smoldering passion.
