description: 
  By the author of Firedrake's Eye: a masterpiece of voice, historical detail, and psychological insight to rival Peter Ackroyd and A. S. Byatt
England in the mid-1580s faced an array of international foes and was torn internally by religious strife. At its center was a slight woman of exceptional intellectual brilliance. Her stature approached that of a deity  Queen Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen. But this icon was more than a reflection of the Queen's personal charisma, it was a political creation, designed to hold a fractious people together.Unicorn's Blood is about a dangerous secret, the existence of a private diary kept by the Queen as a young princess. Should this stolen journal, embroidered with a unicorn that has a ruby for an eye, fall into the wrong hands, its intimate revelations would destroy the entire edifice of Tudor government.
language: English
title: Unicorn's Blood
titlecomplete: Unicorn's Blood (David Becket and Simon Ames, #2)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, British Literature, Historical Mystery, Tudor Period, Novels, Historical Fiction, 16th Century, Crime
ratings_count: 338
series: David Becket and Simon Ames
publisher: Picador USA