num_pages: 118
description: From the multi-award-winning master of crime Denise Mina delivers a radical new take on one of the darkest episodes in Scottish historythe bloody assassination of David Rizzio private secretary to Mary Queen of Scots in the queens 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 lensand explores the lengths that men and women will go to in their search for love and power.Rizzio is nothing less than a provocative and thrilling new literary masterpiece.
language: English
title: Rizzio
publisher: Pegasus Crime