[Steppes] Elizabethan Murder Mystery, fictions

[chiara]

Several of you saw me reading an elizabethan mystery this past weekend and
asked about it. Here are the authors that I have been reading from lately.

Karen Harper
Fiona Buckley
Judith Merkle Riley

The one I was reading this weekend is The Serpent Garden by Judith Merkle
Riley. It is about a flemish female artist forced to marry a student of her
father's since they moved to England and the guilds looked down on all the
artists not English. She has to pass off her art as his. Her specialty are
minitures and the author goes into great detail about the process of
creating a miniture of the period. She makes one for spys, it is of the
Princess Mary (not the one that becomes the queen, Bloody Mary, the other
one).

I find them interesting reading. Timelines are pretty good, rumors that we
have heard through the years of the royals of the period are elaborated
nicely with lots of extra news about other historical occurances around
them.

Just keep in mind, they are fiction. The authors however did actually go
through quite a bit of research to make it just a bit interesting for an
average SCA'er to read and enjoy. :)

Sincerely,
Chiara Francesca
Ansteorra, Steppes
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