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The Poyson Garden by Karen Harper

The Poyson Garden by Karen Harper

      
The letter came in secret, with a pearl eardrop from an aunt long thought dead, resurrecting the forbidden past. Banished by her spiteful half sister, Queen Mary, to Hatfield House in the English countryside, twenty-five-year-old Princess Elizabeth cannot refuse the summons. The Boleyns are in grave danger. And Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn, is marked for death by a master poisoner whose reign of terror may have royal sanction.

With her few loyal retainers, Elizabeth escapes to Kent. Here, in her ancestral Hever Castle, now held by the Queen's loyalists, Elizabeth seeks to unravel the plot against her. And here, in the embrace of intrigue and betrayal, the princess must find a brilliant, powerfully connected killer--before the killer finds her....

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Mass Market Paperback

Jan-2000

Dell

ISBN: 0440225922

ISBN13: 9780440225928

First Edition

Hardcover

Feb-1999

Delacorte

ISBN: 0385332831

ISBN13: 9780385332835

Hardcover

Dec-1999

Thomas T. Beeler

Large Print

ISBN: 1574901915

ISBN13: 9781574901917

 

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published

Feb-1999 (hardcover)

Jan-2000 (paperback)

author series

An Elizabeth I Mystery - 1

time period

European Renaissance

Sixteenth Century

genres

Suspense

sub-genres

Historical Mystery