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Rizzio : Darkland Tales by Mina, Denise is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Rizzio : Darkland Tales about?

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING DENISE MINA COMES A RADICAL NEW TAKE ON ONE OF THE DARKEST EPISODES IN SCOTTISH HISTORY - THE BLOODY MURDER OF DAVID RIZZIO. This breathtakingly tense work is a tale of sex, seduction, secrets and lies, one that looks at history through a modern lens and explores the lengths that men - and women - will go to in the search for love and power. It's Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. She's hosting a supper party. Outside, Edinburgh is bustling. It's full of the Great and the Good and the Idiot Sons of the Rich, here for a Parliament that will take Scotland by the shoulders and turn it from England to face Europe. Mary doesn't know that her Palace is surrounded - that, right now, an army of men is creeping upstairs to her chamber. They're coming to murder David Rizzio, her friend and secretary, the handsome Italian man who is smiling across the table at her. Mary's husband wants it done in front of her and he wants her to watch it done ..

Who reads Rizzio : Darkland Tales?

Author

Mina, Denise

Publisher

Birlinn, Limited; Polygon (An Imprint of Birlinn Limited)

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846975677

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction