Kathy Lynn Emerson

In 1554, scores of English Protestants fled into exile on the Continent after Mary Tudor took the throne and returned England to Catholicism. Sir Henry Ingram and his daughter Cordell were among...

Face Down Across the Western Sea is book seven in the Face Down series featuring sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton. Long out of print in hardcover, this is...

Face Down Among the Winchester Geese is the third historical mystery featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton, sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth as the amateur detective. In this one,...

Face Down Before Rebel Hooves is the sixth book in the Face Down Mystery series featuring sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton. It is 1569 and in the north of...

Face Down Below the Banqueting House is book eight in the Face Down mystery series featuring Elizabethan gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton. In 1573, Queen Elizabeth is on a...

Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross is Book Four in the Face Down series featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton, sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth. In this entry, the victim is Susanna's...

Face Down Beside St. Ann's Well is book nine in the Face Down series featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton as a sixteenth-century herbalist who has a knack for solving murders. The story is set in Buxton,...

Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie is the first of ten historical mystery novels featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton, gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth. She's an expert on poisonous herbs, just what's...

Face Down O'er the Border is the tenth and final novel in the Face Down mystery series featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton, Elizabethan gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth. The border of the title is the...

Face Down Under the Wych Elm is the fifth entry in the Face Down Mystery Series. Widowed Elizabethan gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton, feels an obligation to help an old...

Face Down upon an Herbal is the second book in the Face Down mystery series featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton as the amateur detective. She's a gentlewoman who just happens to be an expert on...

This new edition of How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries is the author's personal take on writing historical mysteries, based on over forty years in print as a writer of fiction and nonfiction...

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...

These four romance novels, originally published between 1989 and 1997, have been newly edited by the author and are now collected for the first time in this omnibus edition. In Cloud Castles,...

The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England, revised in 2023, was originally published in 1996 as part of the Writers Digest Books Everyday Life series. It contains chapters on:...

Do you like eccentric characters? Rural settings? Weird crimes? Welcome to the world of Bobby Wing, Constable, Fence Viewer, Animal Control Officer and Deputy Fire Warden of Skedaddle Gore, Maine. To...