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Another easy to read murder mystery in the Ursula Blanchard series. I feel I know the characters really well now and greet them like old friends with each new novel in the series. (

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Series (with order)

Ursula Blanchard mysteries (6)

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A Pawn for a Queen

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William Cecil, Lord Burghley

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Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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This book is for my East Anglian family: Godfrey, Sandra, David and Judy

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It is my wedding day

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Blurbers

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0743410319, Mass Market Paperback)

A quiet life at Withysham with her young daughter is all that widowed Ursula Blanchard desires. But as the waiting woman and spy for Queen Elizabeth I, she forfeits her needs for the sake of those she is pledged to protect -- even at her own peril....

Ursula's relatives enlist her help when her cousin, Edward Faldene, heads to Scotland carrying a dangerous weapon: a secret list of families loyal to Elizabeth's rival, Mary, Queen of Scots. Desperate to stop the treasonous mission, Ursula rides north in haste to intercept her cousin. It is a journey made without royal permission, and one made in vain....Ursula arrives in Edinburgh too late -- and finds herself tracking a killer inside the Scottish queen's court. Whom can she trust? Mary, the enemy, who is in fact kind and charming? Her genial courtiers? The aristocrat who vies for Ursula's heart? Every player falls under suspicion in a sinister game in which, for a queen, everyone is a pawn.

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