A Tale of Two Palaces by Amanda Carmack
One of the best perks of writing historical mysteries is the research! I am a library junkie, and love spending time digging through dusty old books in search of just the right historical detail. (Of course, this also means sometimes it's hard for me to stop researching and actually, y'know, use the research in writing!). Travel is also a fun way to immerse myself in a period, to imagine how my characters might have actually lived in Elizabethan times. Murder at Fontainebleau uses a sense of place even more than other stories I've written. We glimpse two palaces in the story, one the is long demolished and one that still exists to be toured, and they were a perfect example of the differences between English and French life in the 16 th century, which Kate Haywood discovers for herself when she's sent to Fontainebleau on a mission for Queen Elizabeth.... The English palace, Greenwich, was originally built in 1433 by Humphrey, Duke of Glo...