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The Cradle Queen

by Steven Veerapen Book 3 in the Simon Danforth Mysteries series.

First published 2018

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The infant Mary, Queen of Scots sits at the centre of a struggle between factions at home and Henry VIII’s pressure from England. Simon Danforth is drawn again into the royal household and the dangerous politics surrounding Mary of Guise, Cardinal Beaton and the question of how Scotland’s child queen should be protected and married.

The minority government, English pressure that developed into the Rough Wooing and the leading Scottish political figures are historical. Danforth and the immediate mystery are fictional. The third novel closes the Simon Danforth sequence by placing private crime inside the international contest over Mary’s future.

Historical Periods

Rough Wooing1543–1551 CE Minority of Mary, Queen of Scots1542–1561

Genres

Court & Political Fiction Crime & Mystery Historical Thriller War Fiction

Historical people

Mary, Queen of Scots1542–1587 Mary of Guise1515–1560 David Beaton James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault1516–1575

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