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Queen Jezebel
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446441374
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480

Queen Jezebel

(Medici Trilogy)

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1 Aug 2011
Paperback
1 Sept 2006
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Catherine de' Medici is about to unveil her most bloody plot for power...

The ageing Catherine de' Medici has arranged the marriage of her beautiful Catholic daughter Margot to the uncouth Huguenot King Henry of Navarre. Margot, still desperately in love with Henry de Guise, refuses to utter her vows. But even Catherine is unable to anticipate the carnage that this unholy union is to bring about ...

In the midst of an August heatwave, tensions run high: the marriage hasn't brough peace between Catholics and Huguenots. Realising her weakening power over her sickly son, King Charles, Catherine persuades him of a plot against his life. Mad with fear, Charles agrees to a massacre that will rid France of its 'pestilential Huguenots for ever'. And so the carnival of butchery begins, marking years of terror and upheaval that will end in the demise of kings, and finally expose Catherine's lifetime of depraved scheming...
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446441374
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 480
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About the author

Jean Plaidy

Jean Plaidy, one of the preeminent authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century, is the pen name of the prolific English author Eleanor Hibbert, also know as Victoria Holt. Jean Plaidy's novels had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide by the time of her death in 1993.
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Praise for Queen Jezebel

Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama

New York Times

Jean Plaidy, by the skilful blending of superb storytelling and meticulous attention to authenticity of detail and depth of charaterization has become one of the country's most widely read novelists

Sunday Times

Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting

Observer

One of England's foremost historical novelists

Birmingham Mail

Her novels are still very much to be enjoyed ... Any writer who can both educate and thrill a reader of any age deserves to be remembered and find new fans ... One only has to look at the TV/Media to see that the appetite for this kind of writing is still very much there

Matt Bates, WH Smith Travel

Jean Plaidy knows her period and manages with skill a crowded cast

Times Literary Supplement

A fascinating historical romance ... vividly drawn

Manchester Evening News

Jean Plaidy shows the meticulous nature of her research and her ability to tell a good story without fuss or pretension

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