"The Twylight Tower"

"The Twylight Tower" is Karen Harper's third book in the Elizabeth 1 mysteries.  These books contain historical information with literary license to create a mystery that Queen Elizabeth 1 and her band of close cohorts can solve.  "The Twylight Tower" finds Elizabeth vacationing at her summer place and ignoring a lot of her royal duties much to the dismay of her main adviser, Cecil.  Cecil finds the young Queen spending too much time with Robert Dudley who is serving his Queen at court while his wife, Amy Robsart Dudley, is secluded in a country home where she is suffering with a tumor that threatens to take her life.

Back at court and throughout the country rumors are flying that the Queen is going to marry Dudley despite the fact that he already has a wife.  This is good news to her enemies and those that want to take her throne from her.  When a series of suspicious deaths occur including that of Amy Dudley, Elizabeth is brought face to face with the dangers resulting from her neglect of her royal duties.  Will she be able to solve the mysteries and once again rule her country and keep her enemies at bay?  pazt