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Tam Elidor #1
Dagger in the Crown
Was Mary Queen of Scots implicated in her husband Lord Darnley’s murder? The answer to this Royal mystery which has intrigued crime solvers for 450 years becomes the first case for TAM EILDOR, Time Travelling Detective, returning to Edinburgh to unravel dark and dangerous deeds, secrets of treachery and betrayal where lives, including his own, exist on a knife edge.
352 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 12, 2001
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Alanna Knight
79 books46 followersaka Margaret Hope
Alanna Knight MBE has published more than sixty novels (including sixteen in the acclaimed Inspector Faro series, and seven featuring his daughter Rose McQuinn), as well as non-fiction, true crime and several books on Robert Louis Stevenson, numerous short stories and two plays since her award-winning first book ‘Legend of the Loch’ in 1969. A founding member and Honorary President of the Scottish Association of Writers and of the Edinburgh Writer’s Club, born and educated on Tyneside, she has two sons and two granddaughters and lives in Edinburgh.
Alanna Knight MBE has published more than sixty novels (including sixteen in the acclaimed Inspector Faro series, and seven featuring his daughter Rose McQuinn), as well as non-fiction, true crime and several books on Robert Louis Stevenson, numerous short stories and two plays since her award-winning first book ‘Legend of the Loch’ in 1969. A founding member and Honorary President of the Scottish Association of Writers and of the Edinburgh Writer’s Club, born and educated on Tyneside, she has two sons and two granddaughters and lives in Edinburgh.
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January 6, 2024
Set in Scotland in 1566, we enter the story when Mary Queen of Scots is resident at Craigmillar Castle. My Lord Bothwell is her favourite, but she is surrounded on all sides by plots and intrigue. When he is accosted one evening by one Will Fellows who says that he has just saved his Lordships life from being stabbed by a woman who was following him, James Bothwell fears for his life.
Recounting the tale to his mistress of eleven years, Janet Beaton, she immediately instructs her servant Tam Eildor to investigate. There are many suspects, as James Bothwell has not always spread sweetness and light to those around him. There is his new bride Jean Gorod, who has hardly seen him she they were wed, and what of Anna Throndsen, the mother of his son, whom he abandoned once he had secured her dowry.
As Tam Eildor investigates, he is drawn into the life at court and in particular to one of the Queen's ladies. But what of Tam himself, who arrived at Janet's home just a few months ago, but has no memory of his former life. Who is he really?
Alanna Knight weaves a fascinating tale of life at court in Scotland in the 16th century, and set around the murder of Henry Darnley. This is the first in a new series and I look forward to the next adventure of Tam Eildor.
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Reviewer: Lizzie Hayes
Recounting the tale to his mistress of eleven years, Janet Beaton, she immediately instructs her servant Tam Eildor to investigate. There are many suspects, as James Bothwell has not always spread sweetness and light to those around him. There is his new bride Jean Gorod, who has hardly seen him she they were wed, and what of Anna Throndsen, the mother of his son, whom he abandoned once he had secured her dowry.
As Tam Eildor investigates, he is drawn into the life at court and in particular to one of the Queen's ladies. But what of Tam himself, who arrived at Janet's home just a few months ago, but has no memory of his former life. Who is he really?
Alanna Knight weaves a fascinating tale of life at court in Scotland in the 16th century, and set around the murder of Henry Darnley. This is the first in a new series and I look forward to the next adventure of Tam Eildor.
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Reviewer: Lizzie Hayes
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