{"id":178,"date":"2020-05-06T14:19:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T18:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samiamreadingandreviewing.wordpress.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2025-06-24T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:04:09","slug":"murder-in-the-queens-wardrobe-kathy-lynn-emerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samiamreading.com\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Murder in the Queen’s Wardrobe – Kathy Lynn Emerson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Murder in the Queen\u2019s Wardrobe<\/em> was an experience for me, as it was my first novel of Kathy Lynn Emerson\u2019s that I\u2019ve read, and also my first novel that I\u2019ve read on my Kindle! For those of you following along at home, I\u2019ve purchased a Kindle due to my library being closed during the COVID-19 outbreak. I bought a Paperwhite because LCD screens give me headaches. This novel was headache-free and I don\u2019t think I strained my eyes beyond the normal reading amount, so I will try a few more books on the Kindle, and take advantage of resources like NetGalley where you can only e-read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyhow, let\u2019s talk about this book. I will concede that the first third of it was spent adjusting to the format of the Kindle, and I only really got into the book in the later \u2154. It also could have been because the first third was a little slow, but I will leave that up to you to decide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosamond Jaffery is a young woman who married her childhood friend and claimed her inheritance early so she didn\u2019t have to enter into a contractual marriage with a man chosen by her parents. She\u2019s fairly wealthy, and you can tell she was spoiled a bit as she has a bit of an entitled attitude (I know that\u2019s a trending word today, but it\u2019s the best, in this case). She\u2019s asked to do a bit of spying by an old family friend, and her assignment is to become a lady-in-waiting to the queen\u2019s cousin. Rosamond is to eavesdrop on marriage negotiations between the Russian Tsar and said Queen\u2019s cousin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her assignment starts out well; she\u2019s accepted into the fold, but it soon goes awry as her contact, the Queen\u2019s chief wardrober, is murdered and attempts start to be made on the Queen\u2019s cousin and Rosamond herself. As Rosamond doggedly works to find the culprit, she\u2019s met with obstacles and makes a couple of dangerous bargains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wasn\u2019t sure that I totally got the plot of this story. I can\u2019t say too much without giving it away, but I will say that some murders were unnecessary and things were overly complicated at times. It wasn\u2019t confusing, but the ending was a bit of a letdown, in my opinion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also don\u2019t know that I\u2019m a fan of Rosamond. She\u2019s spoiled and used to getting her way, which makes her difficult and irritating, yet somehow people she meets have a grudging respect for her. I\u2019m not sure that I would, if I met her. She seems like they type of person who would always be telling you why you were wrong and why her ideas are obviously better. Her determination to solve the murder also didn\u2019t quite fit with her personality; she gets really emotionally involved even though the victims are people that she didn\u2019t know or like. She makes some questionable decisions in her search for justice and doesn\u2019t seem to think things through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond those items, I thought this novel was a fine read. It was easy to follow and well-written so readers got a comprehensive picture of the mystery through Rosamond\u2019s eyes. I think I will read the next book without any reservations, because I am curious as to what Rosamond does next and how her relationship with her husband progresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Murder in the Queen\u2019s Wardrobe was an experience for me, as it was my first novel of Kathy Lynn Emerson\u2019s that I\u2019ve read, and also my first novel that I\u2019ve read on my Kindle! For those of you following along at home, I\u2019ve purchased a Kindle due to my library being closed during the COVID-19Continue reading “Murder in the Queen’s Wardrobe – Kathy Lynn Emerson”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,157,163,165,210,236,356],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-book-review","tag-historical-fiction","tag-historical-murder","tag-historical-mystery","tag-kathy-lynn-emerson","tag-london","tag-rosamond-jaffrey","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/samiamreading.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_20200506_170500_337-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samiamreading.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samiamreading.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samiamreading.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samiamreading.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samiamreading.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/samiamreading.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/samiamreading.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samiamreading.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samiamreading.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samiamreading.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samiamreading.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}