Death
of an
Intelligence
Gatherer
A mystery set in Tudor England
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Death
of an Intelligence Gatherer begins in
1553 when Cordell Ingram, a young English gentlewoman hoping to escape
religious persecution, accompanies her father into exile in Strasbourg during
the reign of Mary Tudor. A short time later, her life is turned upside down for
a second time by her father's sudden death. Cordell is certain he was poisoned,
and that his murder has something to do with the intelligence he has been
gathering about a Protestant plot to overthrow the queen. To find justice for
him, and to see that the information he discovered reaches his allies in
England before the date set for a rebellion, she agrees to marry Roger
Allington, an old family friend who fortuitously (perhaps too fortuitously?)
appears on the scene with the claim that her father arranged a betrothal
between them before he left England. Uncertain she can trust Roger, Cordell
runs away on the day of her wedding. Her journey home is fraught with peril,
especially after she is caught by one of the men she believes was responsible
for her father's death. This time there is no escape from marriage or from her
deepest suspicions about her new husband.
This is
a murder mystery with a spy subplot and a dash of romance. In 1991, an earlier
version was published in a different genre (historical romance) under the title
Winter Tapestry. It has been rewritten to focus on Cordell as an amateur
detective and is now told entirely from Cordell's point of view
Links to
blogs written about Death of an Intelligence Gatherer by Kathy Lynn
Emerson:
"I
Was Just Going to Tweak it a Little"
"Death
of an Intelligence Gatherer"
sample
chapter (posted as part of an early giveaway)
"How's
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