Title: A perilous alliance
Description: January, 1576. Widow Ursula Blanchard is in no position to refuse when Sir Francis Walsingham decides she must wed Count Gilbert Renard in order to build a strategic alliance with the French. Soon after the count arrives at her country home to pay court, one of Ursula's household staff is found dead. An accident - or something more sinister?
Subjects: Homicide, Women detectives, Murder, Marriage, Ursula Blanchard (Fictitious character), History, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, Crime, fiction, Great britain, fiction, Blanchard, ursula (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general
Places: Great Britain, England
Time periods: 1485-1603, Tudors, Elizabeth, 1558-1603