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The Queene's Christmas (2004)

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0312994729 (ISBN13: 9780312994723)
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The Queene's Christmas (2004) - Plot & Excerpts

This is the only Tudor Christmas story I have ever seen, and I really loved it! Not only did it offer a good picture of what Christmas at Queen Elizabeth's court was really like, it also showed an exciting, and at times spine-tingling murder mystery taking place at Whitehall Palace. All of our favorite Elizabethan characters are in this book - including Good Queen Bess herself, her Earl of Leicester Robert Dudley, and her confidante and secretary William Cecil. There's danger, excitement, drama, and romance - all taking place during the most fesitve and exciting time of the year. Tudor Christmas 'recipes' are also given at the start of each chapter, and if you're brave and creative enough, I suppose you can try to make them! Enjoy this book - it's unlike any other Tudor book I've read!

First sentence: "I swear, Your Grace, that man will be the death of you yet!"Elizabeth decides to throw an old-fashioned, festive Yuletide celebration for her ailing friend, Kat Ashley, despite protests from the leading churchmen. Of course, the Christmas season is full of mysteries to be solved. I do love reading Christmas books in the middle of summer, gets me all ready for Fall. I found this book to be a fun read and liked all the medieval recipes that were included. I also liked the part the recipes played in the book. I do find myself finding the mysteries very easy to solve at this point and so will be taking a break from the series for awhile. These are fun little books to pick up every so often.

What do You think about The Queene's Christmas (2004)?

I had just read a heavy book so I wanted a light read. It was that. however, as a mystery, I didn't really care who the murderer was. Not while I was reading and not at the end when it was revealed. I couldn't have cared less. The side love triangle of Meg/Ned/Jenks was mildly interesting but not explored deeply enough or resolved. I guess that's because this is a series. This was the first book I've read of this author, and I'm not likely to read anymore. It was alright, but when I read a mystery, I want to be following clues, making guesses, and the mystery seemed to be pushed aside.
—Katy M

This was my first book in the series and while it's not the first I found the characters easy enough to follow. Set at the time of Elizabeth I's court it was interesting to read about how the celebrated the twelve days of Christmas. One of the reasons I read these types of mysteries. The only problem I have with these (using historical figures as detectives) is you can usually cut out some of the suspects just because they are actual historical people and so unless they did indeed murder someone then you know it's not them. Overall it was a pretty decent mystery, it read well and quickly, and I enjoyed the overall story. Given time I will look up more, perhaps more recent books in the series.
—Tom

This book reads a bit like Karen Harper wrote it whilst reading “The Bumper Book of Metaphors and Similes for Keystage 2”! From such gems as 'his ruddy glow went white as bleached linen' to 'happy as a hawk in a windstorm', together with an enormous helping of the phrase ‘s blood to show us that the Queen wasn’t a total goody-goody!That aside, it was quite a good yarn, if a little predictable - I got the murderer quite early on in the book, albeit that my feeling was based on a hunch rather than any clues. I think the fact it took me three weeks to read it speaks volumes and I don’t think I’ll be rushing to buy any more of the ‘Elizabeth I Mysteries’!
—Janet

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