Rizzio: Darkland Tales

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.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis 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.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIts Saturday evening, 9 March 1566, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is six months pregnant. Shes hosting a supper party. Outside, Edinburgh is bustling. Its 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.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMary doesnt know that her Palace is surrounded - that, right now, an army of men is creeping upstairs to her chamber. Theyre coming to murder David Rizzio, her friend and secretary, the handsome Italian man who is smiling across the table at her. Marys husband wants it done in front of her and he wants her to watch it done ...