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Kathy Lynn Emerson
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…
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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…
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…
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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…
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 husband, Sir…
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…
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.
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Face Down Across the Western Sea is book seven in the Face Down series featuring sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton. Long out of print in hardcover, this…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mistress Rosamond Jaffrey is recruited by Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster to be lady-in-waiting to Lady Mary, a cousin of the queen who is being courted by Russia’s Ivan the Terrible…
When Lina Walkenden is found clutching a bloody knife over the dead body of her brother-in-law and guardian, there’s only one person she can turn to for help: her childhood…
Spending three weeks in rural Maine listening to the sound of bagpipes isn’t 12-year-old Kim Hanlon’s idea of fun, but her father has signed up to attend classes in playing…
June, 1584. The death of Sir Walter Pendennis prompts Rosamond Jaffrey to go Cornwall, where her half-brother and mother are. There she discovers that Sir Walter was murdered and works…
Award-winning author Kathy Lynn Emerson has penned thirteen thrilling tales – from medieval England to modern New England – guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat!
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Twelve-year-old Katie Brant is used to getting everything her own way. She lives with her grandparents, two uncles, and her Aunt Mattie in a farm/boardinghouse in the foothills of the…
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…
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…
The Finder of Lost Things is the name Blanche Wainfleet’s three sisters bestowed on her when they were young, not only for her ability to locate missing handkerchiefs and runaway…
Someday, Kristy, if you stay as sweet and innocent as you are now, you’re going to make some lucky guy a great wife.
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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…
The year is 1887, and 12-year-old Julia is sent from her home in the city to live with her cousins in a small town. She hates it, and to make…
Emerson makes her come alive without contriving events or dialogue. The Book Report
Aimed at young readers, Nellie Bly is the story of the groundbreaking investigative reporter who was born…
In this unique compilation of 115 essays written between 2011 and 2021, Kathy Lynn Emerson, author of over sixty traditionally-published books in a variety of genres and under several names…
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…
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…
Kathy Lynn Emerson,Kaitlyn Dunnett
The three short stories and a novella that comprise The Valentine Veilleux Mysteries feature professional photographer Valentine Veilleux as an amateur sleuth. Val specializes in creating calendars for organizations to…
Kathy Lynn Gorton Emerson
When he was in his eighties, Fred Gorton wrote his autobiography as a series of essays. After his death, his granddaughter inherited those handwritten pages, edited them, and distributed the…
