Traitor’s Legacy - S. J. Parris torrent

Category: Crime, Historical Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Renaissance Historical Fiction
Written by S. J. Parris
Read by Kristin Atherton
Format: M4B
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged
Listening Length
12 hours
Audible release date
8 May 2025
THE START OF AN INCREDIBLE NEW SERIES FROM NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING S. J. PARRIS –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
‘Sophia is a dazzling heroine, and the world of late Elizabethan England brimful of plot and conspiracy, is vividly and thrillingly brought to life’ LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSON
‘A new historical crime from S. J. Parris is always cause for celebration but she really has excelled herself with Traitor’s Legacy’ ANDREW TAYLOR
‘S. J. Parris begins what promises to be an equally entertaining new series with this novel set in late Elizabethan England’ THE TIMES
‘A writer who repeatedly proves that she is one of the most stylish of historical crime practitioners’ FINANCIAL TIMES
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England, 1598. Queen Elizabeth’s successor remains unnamed. The country teeters on a knife edge.
When a young heiress is found murdered at the theatre, the Queen’s spymaster Robert Cecil calls upon former agent Sophia de Wolfe to investigate.
A cryptic note found on the dead girl’s body connects to Sophia’s previous life as a spy, and her quest soon takes her into dangerous waters. Powerful enemies emerge, among them the Earl of Essex: the Queen’s favourite courtier and a man of ruthless ambition.
This is a murder that reaches directly into the heart of the court. And Sophia is concealing a deep-buried secret of her own. She must uncover the truth before her past threatens to destroy her.
S. J. Parris’s book Alchemy was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-07-24.


Listening Length
12 hours

Audible release date
8 May 2025

THE START OF AN INCREDIBLE NEW SERIES FROM NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING S. J. PARRIS –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

‘Sophia is a dazzling heroine, and the world of late Elizabethan England brimful of plot and conspiracy, is vividly and thrillingly brought to life’ LAURA SHEPHERD-ROBINSON

‘A new historical crime from S. J. Parris is always cause for celebration but she really has excelled herself with Traitor’s Legacy’ ANDREW TAYLOR

‘S. J. Parris begins what promises to be an equally entertaining new series with this novel set in late Elizabethan England’ THE TIMES

‘A writer who repeatedly proves that she is one of the most stylish of historical crime practitioners’ FINANCIAL TIMES

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England, 1598. Queen Elizabeth’s successor remains unnamed. The country teeters on a knife edge.

When a young heiress is found murdered at the theatre, the Queen’s spymaster Robert Cecil calls upon former agent Sophia de Wolfe to investigate.

A cryptic note found on the dead girl’s body connects to Sophia’s previous life as a spy, and her quest soon takes her into dangerous waters. Powerful enemies emerge, among them the Earl of Essex: the Queen’s favourite courtier and a man of ruthless ambition.

This is a murder that reaches directly into the heart of the court. And Sophia is concealing a deep-buried secret of her own. She must uncover the truth before her past threatens to destroy her.

S. J. Parris’s book Alchemy was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-07-24.