Two women separated by time are linked by the most famous murder mystery in history, the Princes in the Tower. Lady Katherine Grey has already suffered more than her fair share of tragedy. Newly pregnant, she has incurred the wrath of her formidable cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, who sees her as a rival to her insecure throne.
Two women separated by time are linked by the most famous murder mystery in history, the Princes in the Tower.
Lady Katherine Grey has already suffered more than her fair share of tragedy. Newly pregnant, she has incurred the wrath of her formidable cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, who sees her as a rival to her insecure throne.
Alone in her chamber in the Tower, she finds old papers belonging to a kinswoman of hers, Kate Plantagenet, who forty years previously had embarked on a dangerous quest to find what really happened to her cousins, the two young Princes who had last been seen as captives in the Tower.
But time is not on Kate's side - nor on Katherine's either ...
Stunning . . . spine-tingling . . . A richly layered cake of love, sex, danger, death and mystery Sunday Express
Weir, Alisonn
Alison Weir is one of Britain's top-selling historians. She is the author of numerous works of history and historical fiction, specialising in the medieval and Tudor periods. Her bestselling history books include
The Six Wives of Henry VIII,
Eleanor of Aquitaine,
Elizabeth of York and
The Lost Tudor Princess. Her novels include
Innocent Traitor,
Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and
Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession. She is an Honorary Life Patron of Historic Royal Palaces and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She lives and works in Surrey.
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Alison Weir is one of Britain's top-selling historians. She is the author of numerous works of history and historical fiction, specialising in the medieval and Tudor periods. Her bestselling history books include The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Elizabeth of York and The Lost Tudor Princess. Her novels include Innocent Traitor, Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession. She is an Honorary Life Patron of Historic Royal Palaces and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She lives and works in Surrey.
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Paperback edition of the latest novel from the acclaimed historian. Beginning in 1562, it tells the story of Lady Catherine Grey, the cousin of Elizabeth I, as she looks back on her life from the Tower of London. Weir has written many bestselling works of both fiction and non-fiction.
Two women separated by time are linked by the most famous murder mystery in history. A new novel by the bestselling author of The Captive Queen and The Princes in the Tower
