Elizabeth I Series by Karen Harper

3.78 · 46 ratings
  • The Poyson Garden (Elizabeth I #1)
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    The Poyson Garden (Elizabeth I #1)

    Karen Harper

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1999

    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... more

  • The Twylight Tower (Elizabeth I #3)
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    The Twylight Tower (Elizabeth I #3)

    Karen Harper

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2002

    It is May 1560. As sinister storm clouds gather overhead, twenty-six-year-old Queen Elizabeth dispatches William Cecil, her most trusted adviser, to Scotland for crucial negotiations. Handsome, ambitious Lord Robert Dudley is at her side. But their leisurely midsummer idyll is cut short when the court’s master lutenist plunges to his death from a parapet beneath the queen’s window. The loyal retainers of Elizabeth’s privy council do not accept the official verdict of accidental death... more

  • The Queene's Cure (Elizabeth I #4)
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    The Queene's Cure (Elizabeth I #4)

    Karen Harper

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2003

    In late summer of 1562, with handsome Lord Robert Dudley by her side, Elizabeth Tudor leads her retinue to London’s Royal College of Physicians -- to demand its help in the raging battle against disease and pestilence. But the stalwart queen is shaken when a frighteningly lifelike effigy of herself ravaged by pox turns up in her royal coach... more

  • The Thorne Maze (Elizabeth I #5)
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    The Thorne Maze (Elizabeth I #5)

    Karen Harper

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2003

    The vibrant pageant of Elizabethan England comes vividly alive in Karen Harper's fifth novel in her acclaimed Elizabeth I mystery series. In the gardens of Hampton Court, Elizabeth proudly shows a famed visitor her huge maze. But the intricate labyrinth soon becomes a scene of horror as Elizabeth herself is attacked and the visitor is murdered within its leafy dead ends. Undaunted, the queen sets a trap to snare a ghostly murderer before he or she strikes again...

  • The Queene's Christmas (Elizabeth I #6)
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    The Queene's Christmas (Elizabeth I #6)

    Karen Harper

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2003

    The Queene's Christmas draws readers into the magnificent realm of Elizabeth Tudor and the magic of her Court at Yuletide, circa 1564. But in the intoxicating sixth novel of Karen Harper's celebrated Elizabeth I series, the Twelve Days of Christmas are murderously interrupted when the Dresser of the Queen's Privy Kitchen is found hanged and trussed likethe peacock he'd been fashioning for the holiday feast... more

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