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Execution

by S. J. Parris Book 9 in the Giordano Bruno Novels series.

First published 2020

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England, 1586. Francis Walsingham has uncovered a Catholic conspiracy led by Anthony Babington to assassinate Elizabeth I and place Mary, Queen of Scots, on the throne. Rather than arrest the plotters immediately, he allows the scheme to develop in the hope of obtaining written evidence against Mary.

Giordano Bruno is sent inside the conspiracy, where he must help prevent the queen’s murder without exposing Walsingham’s surveillance too soon. As killings and betrayals accumulate, he confronts the human cost of an operation designed not merely to stop treason but to make Mary’s execution politically unavoidable.

Historical Periods

Elizabethan Religious Settlement1559–1563 CE Anglo-Spanish War1585–1604 CE Renaissance & Early Modern Europec. 1300–1789 CE

Historical people

Elizabeth I1533–1603 Mary, Queen of Scots1542–1587 Francis Walsingham1532–1590 Anthony Babington1561–1586 Giordano Bruno1548–1600

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