A Traitor's Tears (An Ursula Blanchard Elizabethan Mystery)
Recently widowed single mother and reluctant spy Ursula Blanchard just wants to be left alone to nurse her grief and care for her infant son. When summoned by her half sister, Queen Elizabeth I, to witness the execution of a traitor, Ursula is unable to refuse, playing a pivotal role in a series of events that culminates in the murder of her neighbor and chief nemesis, Jane Cobbold. After Jane’s body is discovered and Ursula’s loyal manservant Roger Brockley is accused of the crime, she is drawn directly into an investigation that ripples out from homicide to high treason. As is the case in many of the previous titles in the Ursula Blanchard series, the bitter rivalry between Queen Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots, serves as the gripping backdrop for a historical whodunit steeped in Elizabethan drama and intrigue. --Margaret Flanagan