Execution

The No. 1�Sunday Times�bestselling series set during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy and Netflix's The Crown� `Gripping' Sunday Times `Fast-paced and entertaining' Mail on Sunday A TREASONOUS PLOTEngland, 1586. Giordano Bruno, heretic turned spy, passes on vital information to spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham. A band of Catholic Englishmen are plotting to kill Queen Elizabeth and install Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne. A DEADLY TRAPWalsingham, already aware of the plot, is allowing it to progress. He hopes that Mary will put her support in writing - and condemn herself to a traitor's death. A QUEEN IN DANGER Bruno must go undercover, join the conspirators and stop them. A queen is destined to die; Bruno must make sure it is the right one. Praise for Execution `A brilliantly realised fictionalisation of the Babington plot against Elizabeth 1' Observer `Execution has an atmospheric sense of place. The plot twists and turns' The Times `Immaculate. the depth of period detail, the all-enveloping sense of time and place, and the sheer gory drama' Metro `Sumptuous' New York Times `Parris's attention to the details of Elizabethan life and her ability to create characters of depth are again on display in a gripping narrative' The Sunday Times `Fast-paced and entertaining' Mail on Sunday `Parris is one of the stars of historical crime fiction and this, her sixth Giordano Bruno novel, is among her best'i `Superbly plotted, shimmeringly written, it will have you on the edge of your seat' Kate Williams, author of The Storms of War `An impressive feat' Marisa Haetzman, also writes as Ambrose Parry