The Simon & Elizabeth Mysteries

Set in 1546, Herring’s captivating debut depicts the future Elizabeth I as a keen and shrewd detective. A killer is stalking London, beheading young women and dressing their bodies in nuns’ clothes. When one of the princess’s own ladies becomes a victim, the 12-year-old Elizabeth, daughter of the now failing Henry VIII, joins with her friends...

As England’s young king struggles with illness, one of his advisors is poisoned. Elizabeth Tudor, fearing her brother was the target, asks her old friend Simon Maldon to investigate the crime. Aided by his fiancée, Hannah, Simon, now an apothecary’s apprentice, braves the corridors of power to protect the king.

Power is all-important to the...

In this third book of the Simon & Elizabeth Mysteries, Mary Tudor takes the throne of England, accuses her sister Elizabeth of treason, and imprisons her in the Tower of London. Most people, including Elizabeth herself, believe she will never leave the place alive.

Loyal to a fault, Elizabeth’s old friend Simon Maldon manages to get in to see...

Shortly after learning his brother-inlaw, Will Clark, was murdered, Simon Maldon is called into Queen Elizabeth’s presence. Trusting her old friend’s judgment, the queen wants Simon to go with her delegation to Scotland and make an objective assessment of the character of Mary, Queen of Scots. Despite his pleas of family concerns, Elizabeth...