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Kathy Lynn
Emerson writes in several different genres and under several different names,
including
Kaitlyn Dunnett and Kate Emerson. As Kathy Lynn Emerson she is best known for
historical mysteries, including the Face Down Mystery Series featuring sixteenth-century gentlewoman,
herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton, the Diana Spaulding 1888 Quartet,
and her
Agatha-award-winning nonfiction, How to Write Killer Historical
Mysteries.
She has also
written children's books and romance novels.
At present
she is semi-retired and working on producing omnibus editions of backlist
titles.
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NEW
reissues
of
THE MISTRESS JAFFREY MYSTERIES
set
in England in the 1580s
a spin-off from the Face Down Mysteries
Mistress Jaffrey is Rosamond Appleton,
illegitimate daughter of Lady Appleton's late, unlamented husband, Sir Robert.
Now she's all grown up, married, and ready to solve crimes on her own. She was
raised by Susanna Appleton, but she inherited some of the worst traits of both
her parents. While still a teenager, she made an impulsive runaway marriage,
wedding her childhood playmate, Rob Jaffrey, once known as "Mole" and
the son of Lady Appleton's steward and housekeeper, Mark and Jennet Jaffrey.
Rosamond got what she wanted, control of her fortune, but now she's wed to Rob
for life. There is no divorce in Elizabeth Tudor's England.
Available
now: #1 in this three-book series
ISBN
979-8-227-47247-2
$15.99
ebook
ISBN
979-8-230-80950-0
$5.99
In Murder in the Queen's Wardrobe, Rosamond is shocked to learn her husband, from whom she has been estranged for some time, may be in danger. To help keep him safe, she is willing to go undercover as an intelligence gatherer for the Crown. Why not, when both her father and her stepfather did their share of spying when they were young? But when another agent is murdered, Rosamond must add crime-solving to her other responsibilities. With action that moves from the English court of Queen Elizabeth the First to the Russia of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, Mistress Jaffrey's first outing is a unique combination of spy thriller and cozy historical mystery.
For more information on new print editions
of all ten novels in the Face Down series and new print and e-book editions of
the three Mistress Jaffrey Mysteries click here: Face
Down Mysteries
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Also Newly Published
ISBN 979-8-227-97855-4
$18.99
ebook
ISBN 979-8-227-88201-1
$5.99
Lady Appleton's World: The Complete Short Stories is a collection of sixteen short stories first published between 1999 and 2015 and newly edited by the author. They feature the adventures of Susanna, Lady Appleton, sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, and other characters from Kathy Lynn Emerson's ten-book Face Down Mystery Series. This is the first time all sixteen have appeared in a single volume. Illustrated with eight pen and ink drawings by Linda Weatherly S and accompanied by author notes, the stories included are: "The Body in the Dovecote," "Much Ado about Murder," "The Rubaiyat of Nicholas Baldwin," "Lady Appleton and the London Man," "Lady Appleton and the Cautionary Herbal," "The Riddle of the Woolsack," "Lady Appleton and the Cripplegate Chrisoms," "Lady Appleton and the Bristol Crystals," "Encore for a Neck Verse," "Confusions Most Monstrous," "Death by Devil's Turnips," "Any Means Short of Murder," "A Wondrous Violent Motion," "Lady Appleton and the Creature of the Night," "The Curse of the Figure Flinger," and "Lady Appleton and the Yuletide Hogglers."
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Death of an
Intelligence Gatherer
a mystery set
in 1553 in England and on the Continent
e-book: ISBN
979-8223-73599-1
$5.99
trade
paperback: ISBN 979-8223-99450-3
$15.99
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 the 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.
for more
information click here
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THE VALENTINE VEILLEUX MYSTERIES
three short stories and a novella
available in print and e-book formats
e-book: ISBN 979-8-201-43879-1
$5.99
trade paperback: ISBN 979-8-201-74301-7
$10.99
The three short stories and a novella that
comprise The Valentine Veilleux Mysteries feature professional photographer Valentine Veilleux as an
amateur sleuth. Val specializes in creating calendars for organizations to use
for fundraising purposes. She is a free spirit who travels the country in a RV,
custom-designed to serve as both home and workplace, with her three-legged cat,
Lucky, for company. In the course of each job she takes on, she becomes
involved with a group of people who know each other and often share dark
secrets. When a member of such a group is murdered, Val has the advantage of an
outsider's perspective combined with an insider's knowledge of the suspects,
while her photographs provide clues the police have missed. Val first appeared
in Kaitlyn Dunnett's ninth Liss MacCrimmon Mystery, The Scottie Barked at Midnight, and reappeared in the second book (Clause & Effect) of
her Deadly Edits Mysteries.
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Kathy Lynn Emerson's other titles include
Mysteries, Nonfiction, Romances,
and Children's Books
Links to More Information
Kathy Lynn Emerson's bio
page
Complete
list of Kathy Lynn Emerson's books and short stories
books
written as Kate Emerson
books
written as Kaitlyn Dunnett
books
in the Face Down Mystery Series (including the
Mistress Jaffrey Mysteries)
books
in the Diana Spaulding 1888 Quartet
the
stand alone historical mystery The Finder
of Lost Things
romance novels—updated
and reissued in omnibus e-book editions
new editions of Kathy's Children's
Books
Kathy's nonfiction titles
Kathy's Genealogy Page
(links to the biography of her grandfather, family histories, and
stories that ended up in novels)
Click here
for Sanford Emerson's page (Kathy's husband) and information
on Well
Hell, The Yarns of Constable Bobby Wing of Skedaddle Gore, Maine
If you want to
keep up to date on Kathy/Kaitlyn's latest writing news, check out Kaitlyn
Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson on Facebook.
Kathy
also blogs twice a month at Maine
Crime Writers
contact: kathylynnemerson@roadrunner.com