Ursula Blanchard (3 books in series)
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review 1: I fear that this series has gone the way of so many others with serious longevity: repetitive stories with uneven reliance on previous books to keep the storyline going. While the Catholic/Protestant conflict has provided a great basis for much of the series, things are just ge...
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review 1: This is part of the series about Ursula Blanchard in the court of Queen Elizabeth the first. In his novel, Ursula has two missions. She has an assignment from the Queen as well as a personal one that involves saving her husband's property.The author recreates the English villages...
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review 1: Cecil uses the cover of a family wedding to force Ursula and the usual entourage to go to Spanish-occupied Brussels to interfere in the latest Ridolfi plot to get Catholic assistance and restore Mary Stuart to the throne. Buckley tacks trips to Rome and Madrid into 50 pages at t...