The Royal Assassin: Queen Elizabeth I's life is under threat...

By Adele Jordan

Book Overview

Another thrilling adventure in Tudor England For fans of S J Parris, Andrew Taylor, S W Perry and Andrew Swanston.

The hunters become the hunted...

1584, London

When Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster to the Tudor Queen Elizabeth, learns of a Jesuit assassin landing on England's shores, he's determined to go to any lengths to protect his Protestant Queen.

His prot g , Kit Scarlett, discovers a letter revealing the name of the assassin - Gregorio Luca. Together with Scottish agent, Iomhar Blackwood, Walsingham sends them on a mission to track Luca down.

It is clear Luca is only coming with one task in mind - to kill. But is his target the English queen?

Kit and Iomhar must scour the coast, keeping an eye on the beaches and searching for priest holes to stop Luca before he gets any further.

But when Kit is attacked, they realise they are the ones in grave danger...

Why is Kit being targeted? Does Luca know they are tracking him?

And can he be stopped before he completes his deadly mission...?

THE ROYAL ASSASSIN is the second book in the Kit Scarlett Tudor Mysteries Series. It is a thrilling historical espionage adventure set in Elizabethan London with a feisty female lead.

THE KIT SCARLETT TUDOR MYSTERY SERIES:
BOOK ONE: THE GENTLEWOMAN SPY
BOOK TWO: THE ROYAL ASSASSIN
BOOK THREE: A SPY AT HAMPTON COURT
BOOK FOUR: THE LOST HIGHLANDER
BOOK FIVE: THE TRAITOR QUEEN

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800558031
• ISBN13: 9781800558038
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Sapere Books
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"