Feud (The Lady Grace Mysteries)

by Grace Cavendish

There is much excitement at court as the famous painter Levina Teerlimc arrives to paint the Queen's portrait.

The Maids of Honour are recruited to help entertain the Queen during the sittings, and to pose for the painter whilst the Queen is busy. They love being in the studio but have to beware as deadly arsenic is used in one of the paints!

One of Lady Grace's fellow Maids of Honour, Carmina, begins to act rather strangely - she seems confused and always tired. Her family has recently been involved in a feud with another noble family after her father was killed in a jousting tournament - is it possible that Carmina is being poisoned?

Could the painter or her assistant be involved? Can Grace solve the mystery and discover the truth behind the strange happenings at Court?

• ISBN10: 1862304645
• ISBN13: 9781862304642
• Publish Date: 3 January 2008
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
• Imprint: Red Fox
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 224
• Language: English

Reviews

[wyvernfriend]

The Queen's portrait painters are hard at work, one of the Maids of Honour is posing as the queen and Lady Grace is set to keep her distracted by reading to her. Grace is more distracted with the art. When one of the other ladies becomes ill and Grace finds that the symptoms can be produced by paint she starts to investigate. This time it is a matter of life and death.

The title pretty much gives a lot of the plot away but these stories are more about the Elizabethan experience than mystery and it is an interesting read.