Kerry Odell and her younger brother Lyle are not enthusiastic about spending the next six months in rural western Maine. It seems like a pretty dismal place, especially in March, and means entering a...

Together for the first time—the first three novels and five short stories in Kathy Lynn Emerson's Face Down series, hailed as "a solid bet for historical mystery fans" (Publishers Weekly). Sixteenth-century...

This new edition of How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries is the author's personal take on writing historical mysteries, based on over forty years in print as a writer of fiction and nonfiction and...

Following Volume One (2021), here is the second in this three-volume collection. Together for the first time are books four through seven in Kathy Lynn Emerson's Face Down series, hailed by Publishers...

Following Volumes One and Two, here is the third in this three-volume collection. Together for the first time are books eight through ten in Kathy Lynn Emerson's Face Down series, hailed by Publishers...

This collection of Kathy Lynn Emerson's historical mysteries featuring Diana Spaulding, journalist for a New York scandal sheet, as the amateur detective, contains four complete novels and three short...

In 1554, scores of English Protestants fled into exile on the Continent after Mary Tudor took the throne and returned England to Catholicism. Sir Henry Ingram and his daughter Cordell were among them,...

In today's world, she would be called psychic, or perhaps a person with a gift. In Colonial New England there were other names for such people—words like witch and sorcerer.On the surface, Mercy Browne...

Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie is the first of ten historical mystery novels featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton, gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth. She's an expert on poisonous herbs, just what's needed...

Face Down Beside St. Ann's Well is book nine in the Face Down series featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton as a sixteenth-century herbalist who has a knack for solving murders. The story is set in Buxton,...

Face Down Under the Wych Elm is the fifth entry in the Face Down Mystery Series. Widowed Elizabethan gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton, feels an obligation to help an old acquaintance...

Face Down Before Rebel Hooves is the sixth book in the Face Down Mystery series featuring sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton. It is 1569 and in the north of England...

Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross is Book Four in the Face Down series featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton, sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth. In this entry, the victim is Susanna's...

Face Down Across the Western Sea is book seven in the Face Down series featuring sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton. This edition has been newly edited by the...

Face Down Below the Banqueting House is book eight in the Face Down mystery series featuring Elizabethan gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton. In 1573, Queen Elizabeth is on a royal...

Face Down upon an Herbal is the second book in the Face Down mystery series featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton as the amateur detective. She's a gentlewoman who just happens to be an expert on poisonous...

Face Down O'er the Border is the tenth and final novel in the Face Down mystery series featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton, Elizabethan gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth. The border of the title is the...

Face Down Among the Winchester Geese is the third historical mystery featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton, sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth as the amateur detective. In this one, Susanna's...

"Someday, Kristy, if you stay as sweet and innocent as you are now, you're going to make some lucky guy a great wife." That's what the boy Kristy Russell is crazy about tells her. Insulted, sixteen-year-old...

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England, revised in 2023, was originally published in 1996 as part of the Writers Digest Books Everyday Life series. It contains chapters on: Clothes...

Murder in a Cornish Alehouse is the third in the three-book Mistress Jaffrey Mystery Series. Rosamond, the estranged foster daughter of Susanna, Lady Appleton (the sleuth in the Face Down Mystery series)...

Murder in the Merchant's Hall is the second in the three-book Mistress Jaffrey Mystery Series set in England in the early 1580s. Rosamond, the estranged foster daughter of Susanna, Lady Appleton (the...

A Who's Who of Tudor Women contains over 2300 mini-biographies of women who lived at least part of their lives between 1485 and 1603. Entries are arranged alphabetically by the maiden name of the subject...

Set in Colonial Rhode Island in the mid-seventeenth century, Shalla is the fictionalized story of a real person, one of the children of Rhode Island founder Samuel Gorton, who was known as "the New England...

These four romance novels, originally published between 1989 and 1997, have been newly edited by the author and are now collected for the first time in this omnibus edition. In Cloud Castles, originally...

Lady Appleton's World: The Complete Short Stories is a collection of sixteen short stories first published between 1999 and 2015 and newly edited by the author. They feature the adventures of Susanna,...

Love and Murder in the Time of the Tudors: Two Novels of Romantic Suspense set in sixteenth-century England Unquiet Hearts was first published in 1994 for the Harper Monogram line. It is 1562 and Thomasine...

Murder in the Queen's Wardrobe is the first in the three-book Mistress Jaffrey Mystery Series, set in the early 1580s in England and Muscovy. It's a spinoff from Kathy Lynn Emerson's Face Down Mysteries....

The Face Down Collection Four includes all three Mistress Jaffrey Mysteries, a series spun off from Kathy Lynn Emerson's Face Down novels. The protagonist is Rosamond, foster daughter of Susanna, Lady...

The Waycross Springs Trilogy: The three novels in this omnibus edition were all previously published as category romances by Bantam Loveswept and all three include characters who later appear in the author's...