Rizzio (Novella)

Darkland Tales

Rizzio (Novella)
Denise Mina
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Hardback
h198 x 129mm - 128pg
2 Sep 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781846975677
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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 . . .
' darkly compelling, riveting' -- Sam Baker ' The cream of the crop, an author who pushes the crime novel in new and exciting directions' -- Ian Rankin ' May be Britain' s finest living crime novelist' * Daily Telegraph * ' Denise Mina brilliantly manages to be funny, heart-wrenching, gut-punching and addictive all at once' -- Nicci French One of the most talented, most daring, most humane writers of the past twenty years, an artist whose thrillers d' ouble as bracing moral inquiries' -- A. J. Finn ' a writer of huge skill and inventiveness who blends tense, well-crafted crime fiction with social conscience and historical weight' * The Bookseller * ' Bestseller Mina vividly recreates a gruesome episode from the Tudor era in this searing novella set mostly over the course of a single day, Mar. 9, 1566. Mina interjects well-wrought characterizations; this superior historical thriller reads like a real-life episode of Game of Thrones' * Publishers Weekly (starred) *
Denise Mina was born in East Kilbride in 1966. Her novels include The End of the Wasp Season and Gods and Beasts, both of which won the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award in consecutive years. Her novel Conviction was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and a Sunday Times, Observer and Telegraph ' Book of the Year' . Denise also writes short stories, and in 2006 wrote her first play. She is a regular contributor to TV and radio.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781846975677
Published: 2 Sep 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Birlinn
Publisher: Birlinn General
Format: Hardback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 128

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