From the multi-award-winning master of crime, Denise Mina delivers a radical new take on one of the darkest episodes in Scottish history—the bloody assassination of DavidRizzo private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, in the queen's chambers in Holyrood Palace. On the evening of March 9th, 1566, David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, was brutally murdered. Dragged from the chamber of the heavily pregnant Mary, Rizzio was stabbed fifty six times by a party of assassins. This breathtakingly tense novella dramatises the events that led up to that night, telling the infamous story as it has never been told before. A dark tale of sex, secrets and lies, Rizzio looks at a shocking historical murder through a modern lens—and explores the lengths that men and women will go to in theirsearch for love and power. Rizzio is nothing less than a provocative and thrilling new literary masterpiece.
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Publisher
Pegasus CrimeeBook ISBN
9781643138466
Year
2021Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- 1. David Rizzio Plays Tennis with His Assassins
- 2. No, You Go First
- 3. In a Room Full of Razor Blades
- 4. Our Queen Is Trampled Meat
- 5. Henry Yair Meets His Gallows Twin
- 6. No!
- 7. John Noir, Papal Spy
- 8. Strange Noises in a Familiar Space
- 9. Dancing on the Lip of a Lion Pit
- 10. Great Men of History, Foiled by the Mean
- 11. Proclamations and Apparitions
- 12. Old and Pointless and Carrying a Piss Pot
- 13. Redly
- 14. The Price of Tights
- 15. Here Is a Man in a Hood with a Knife
- 16. Claret on a Silver Slipper
- 17. Traditionally Associated with Mary, Queen of Scots
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright