Face Down Below the Banqueting House

<p><em>Face Down Below the Banqueting House</em> 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 royal progress in Kent and plans to visit Susanna's manor house Leigh Abbey-an expensive and nerve wracking prospect for any householder. In preparation a banqueting house is constructed in the branches of an ancient oak tree but when a man is killed in a fall from that structure it may be murder. Will that be enough to make the queen change her mind?</p><p> </p><p>Spirited and studded with wry humor <em>Kirkus</em></p><p> </p><p>Emerson's plot is deft and complex; she is at the top of her form here and leaves us with a breathless ending and lovely possibilities for future installments. <em>Booklist</em></p><p> </p><p>This reprint edition has been newly edited by the author. </p>