A perilous alliance

By Fiona Buckley

Subjects: Marriage, Ursula Blanchard (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Women detectives, Fiction, mystery & detective, historical, Crime, fiction, Murder, Homicide, Fiction, Great britain, fiction, Blanchard, ursula (fictitious character), fiction, History

Description: January, 1576. Widow Ursula Blanchard is in no position to refuse when Sir Francis Walsingham decides she must wed Count Gilbert Renard in order to build a strategic alliance with the French. Soon after the count arrives at her country home to pay court, one of Ursula's household staff is found dead. An accident - or something more sinister?