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First Sentence: Steam rose from the marrow-bone pie until the old man's sharp beak of a nose wrinkled in delight.

Sir Robert Appleton is off to France on a mission for Queen Elizabeth. A letter he receives, shortly before his trip, tells of the death of John Bexwith, steward of Appleton Manor in Lancashire. As Bexwith was not old and was found dead face down in a marrow-bone pie, Lady Susanna Appleton, who is writing an herbal and knowledgeable of poisons, suspects his death to be unnatural. In spite of tales that a ghost haunts Appleton Manor, Susanna decides to unmask the ghost, find the killer and put the manor to rights.

I'd not read Emerson before. Two things, in particular, stand out with her writing; her characters and her research.

Lady Susanna is delightful. She is smart--highly educated for the time, practical--not given to superstition or fancy, and independent. She is certainly the most developed of the characters, yet the personalities of the other characters come through as well.

Ms. Emerson's research is apparent. The period is a fascinating one in which there, as Sir Robert puts it "...too many queens..." The offset of Susanna's activities by Robert's in France, provides a view of their relationship and of the time. The information on plants and herbs was fascinating but I also didn't realize that hair jewelry, memorializing the dead, dates back as far as the 16 century.

The story is well plotted with a good balance of suspense. There was, however, a fairly obvious hint as to the killer. What was lacking was a strong sense of time and place.

At times, I felt the story read as much more modern than the setting. This was mainly due to the language being quite modern. However, as the first in a series, I did enjoy it enough that I'm interested in reading the next book.

FACE DOWN IN THE MARROW-BONE PIE (Hist. Mys-Lady Susanna Appleton-England-1559) - G+
Emerson, Kathy Lynn - 1st in series
St. Martin's Press, 1997, US Hardcover - ISBN: 0312151233


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Face Down in the MarrowBone Pie An Elizabethan Mystery Elizabethan Mysteries Kathy Lynn Emerson 9780312151232 Books Reviews

A nice piece of historical fiction. A pleasant way to pass a few hours.
Liked the plot and the characters. Enjoyed the descriptions of the land and cultures. Well thought out murder mystery! I will look for more by this author.
I just discovered this series, and it looks to be delightful. I particularly enjoyed the book and look forward to reading more in the series.
This mystery kept me interested as it spoke of herbs, potions and what they are used for. Interesting stuff in a mystery!
Set in Elizabethan England, author Kathy Emerson has chosen an interesting historical period for her mystery series and an intriguing heroine in Susanna, Lady Appleton -- a proto-feminist educated by her father and grudgingly admired by her more conventional husband. Emerson introduces a great deal of information about the times, the people and the herbs without making it painful, and the book is readable for that alone. The heroine and other characters are believable and three-dimensional and the murder and its solution are reasonably well-done -- better than many historical mysteries. I look forward to reading others in the series.
I wasn't really sure that I would like this book, but the premise of the story interested me - so I thought that I'd give it a try. The story was much more entertaining than I originally thought it would be. I liked the character of Susanna. She was strong and, perhaps, more willful that can be healthy, but she could also be kind to those who others would see only as servants. I haven't yet read any of the other books in the series, but one thing I'd like to see happen is that Susanna and Robert would grow closer as husband and wife. Having Robert traipsing around with a "woman in every port" sort of life, could become annoying very fast.
I've always loved to read history, and after I purchased a course on the Late Middle Ages, I became intrigued with that particular period of history. I've also gone back to a genre I loved as a teenager - mysteries - and have been reading a lot of cozies lately (think Miss Marple).

I decided to see if there were any mysteries set in the late Middle Ages and selected this one. This turned out to be a good decision! -)

Although as others have said there's a strong clue fairly early on that takes away most of the whodunnit prospects, I still read on. The characters, especially Lady Appleton, are strong and interesting. It sounds as if the clothing and other aspects of that time are just right, as are the way they converse with each other. (In other words, Ms. Emerson shows she did her research homework, but she doesn't hit us over the head with it by going into long-winded info dumps about things someone in the 21st century wouldn't know about.)

The "tell all scene" or whatever you want to call it, was unexpected. That scene leads into yet something else unexpected, but (I think) at least *that* bodes well for Lady Appleton's further sleuthing...

I enjoyed this well enough to buy the next book in the series.
First Sentence Steam rose from the marrow-bone pie until the old man's sharp beak of a nose wrinkled in delight.

Sir Robert Appleton is off to France on a mission for Queen Elizabeth. A letter he receives, shortly before his trip, tells of the death of John Bexwith, steward of Appleton Manor in Lancashire. As Bexwith was not old and was found dead face down in a marrow-bone pie, Lady Susanna Appleton, who is writing an herbal and knowledgeable of poisons, suspects his death to be unnatural. In spite of tales that a ghost haunts Appleton Manor, Susanna decides to unmask the ghost, find the killer and put the manor to rights.

I'd not read Emerson before. Two things, in particular, stand out with her writing; her characters and her research.

Lady Susanna is delightful. She is smart--highly educated for the time, practical--not given to superstition or fancy, and independent. She is certainly the most developed of the characters, yet the personalities of the other characters come through as well.

Ms. Emerson's research is apparent. The period is a fascinating one in which there, as Sir Robert puts it "...too many queens..." The offset of Susanna's activities by Robert's in France, provides a view of their relationship and of the time. The information on plants and herbs was fascinating but I also didn't realize that hair jewelry, memorializing the dead, dates back as far as the 16 century.

The story is well plotted with a good balance of suspense. There was, however, a fairly obvious hint as to the killer. What was lacking was a strong sense of time and place.

At times, I felt the story read as much more modern than the setting. This was mainly due to the language being quite modern. However, as the first in a series, I did enjoy it enough that I'm interested in reading the next book.

FACE DOWN IN THE MARROW-BONE PIE (Hist. Mys-Lady Susanna Appleton-England-1559) - G+
Emerson, Kathy Lynn - 1st in series
St. Martin's Press, 1997, US Hardcover - ISBN 0312151233