[Steppes] Elizabethan Murder Mystery, fictions

[jwains]

If Chiara's list is appealing, I have another suggestion. I
recently completed a trilogy written by Robin Maxwell: The
Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, Virgin, and The Queen's
Bastard.  All have interesting speculation about the affair
between Elizabeth and Robert Dudley, and are, of course,
fiction but well researched.

Julianna Vertue


> 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
> Not all ermine spots are created equally
>
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