“Rizzio,” a brief novel of historical treachery by the adventurous Scottish author Denise Mina, is set mostly in Edinburgh’s Holyrood Palace in early 1566. In residence at Holyrood is the 23-year-old ...

In March 1566, David Rizzio, the secretary and court favourite of Mary Queen of Scots, bit the dust at Holyrood Palace. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get ...

David Rizzio was the secretary for relations with France and a court favourite of Mary, Queen of Scots. But, having become deeply unpopular among the Scottish nobles, he was the target of a vicious ...

In Rizzio (Pegasus Crime, Sept.), Mina dramatizes the Tudor-era assassination of David Rizzio, the personal secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots. Where did the idea for this book come from? Rizzio is ...

In 2021, Polygon, an Edinburgh-based publisher, launched the Darkland Tales, a series of "dramatic fictional retellings of stories from history, myth and legend" written by Scotland's greatest ...

In Rizzio, multi-award winning Scottish crime writer Denise Mina has turned her talent to historical crime, in a modern retelling of one of the most infamous episodes in Scottish history, the murder ...

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