Tam Elidor 01 - Dagger in the Crown

A haunting historical murder mystery, set in the court of Mary Queen of

Scots. It is 1566 and Mary Queen of Scots is in residence at Craigmillar

Castle. But as rumours of treasonous plots abound, no one there can

feel safe. Least of all Lord James Bothwell, who survives a murderous

attack thanks to a lad by the name of Will Fellows. But what is

surprising is that Will snatched the diamond-encrusted dagger not from

the hands of an ambitious lord, jealous of Bothwell's close relationship

with Mary, but from a woman, who then disappears into the night. Of the

many ladies he knows, who would want him dead? His new bride Jean

Gordon, only too aware of his infidelities? Anna Throndsen, the

abandoned mother of his son William? Or perhaps one of the many lovers

of Mary's dissolute husband Henry Darnley? When Bothwell's mistress

Janet Beaton hears of the attack, she puts her steward Tam Elidor on the

assassin's trail. And he must act fast because the attempts on

Bothwell's life are about to escalate... But the enigmatic Tam is a

mystery in himself, having arrived at Janet's castle months before with

no memory of his name or previous life. All he does have are vague

glimpses of the future - a future that looks dark for both Bothwell and

his queen...