Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Prophecy: An Elizabethan Thriller
    Unavailable
    Prophecy: An Elizabethan Thriller
    Unavailable
    Prophecy: An Elizabethan Thriller
    Audiobook12 hours

    Prophecy: An Elizabethan Thriller

    Written by S. J. Parris

    Narrated by John Lee

    4.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    S. J. Parris returns with the next Giordano Bruno mystery, set inside Queen Elizabeth's palace and steeped in period atmospherics and the strange workings of the occult.

    It is the year of the Great Conjunction, when the two most powerful planets, Jupiter and Saturn, align-an astrologi­cal phenomenon that occurs once every thousand years and heralds the death of one age and the dawn of another. The streets of London are abuzz with predictions of horrific events to come, possibly even the death of Queen Elizabeth.

    When several of the queen's maids of honor are found dead, rumors of black magic abound. Elizabeth calls upon her personal astrologer, John Dee, and Giordano Bruno to solve the crimes. While Dee turns to a mysterious medium claiming knowledge of the murders, Bruno fears that some­thing far more sinister is at work. But even as the climate of fear at the palace intensifies, the queen refuses to believe that the killer could be someone within her own court.

    Bruno must play a dangerous game: can he allow the plot to progress far enough to give the queen the proof she needs without putting her, England, or his own life in danger?

    In this utterly gripping and gorgeously written novel, S. J. Parris has proven herself the new master of the historical thriller.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 3, 2011
    ISBN9780307714411
    Unavailable
    Prophecy: An Elizabethan Thriller
    Author

    S. J. Parris

    S. J. Parris is the pseudonym of Stephanie Merritt. It was as a student at Cambridge that Stephanie first became fascinated by the rich history of Tudor England and Renaissance Europe. Since then, her interest has grown and led her to create this series of historical thrillers featuring Giordano Bruno. Stephanie has worked for a variety of newspapers and magazines as well as radio and television. She currently writes for the Observer and the Guardian and lives in Surrey with her son.

    Related to Prophecy

    Related audiobooks

    Historical Mystery For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      TV, FILM & RADIO

      Aug 5, 2021

      TV, FILM & RADIO
      5 min read

    • Article

      ...thomas And Jean Weir

      Aug 12, 2023

      ...thomas And Jean Weir
      2 min read

    • Article

      Books Of The Month

      Jul 22, 2022

      By Patrick Worrall Chess has long been popular as a metaphor for politics, particularly during the cold war when, like the spy novel, it came into its own. Worrall’s ambitious debut thriller moves back and forth between 2004, when former resistance f

      2 min read

    • Article

      Science Fiction And Fantasy

      Nov 3, 2022

      Peng Shepherd Orion 2022 Hb, 392pp, £14.99, ISBN 9781398709928 Map-makers sometimes include false information in a map – a made-up river name, or a small street or hamlet – to catch other map-makers stealing and copying their maps. But what if one of

      4 min read

    • Article

      Pagan Crazy

      Sep 20, 2019

      Pagan Crazy
      3 min read

    • Article

      Intense Suspense

      Apr 14, 2023

      By GEORGINA MOORE HQ Margo was 16 when she married Richard, an alcoholic poet, who regarded her as his muse. They loved each other deeply and so she was completely devastated when he abruptly abandoned her and their three daughters. Growing up in Sa

      3 min read

    • Article

      TV & RADIO

      Oct 20, 2020

      From Monday 12 October, 9pm BBC One and BBC iPlayer Well, this is an unexpected but very welcome surprise. Earlier this year, with the coronavirus pandemic playing havoc with filming schedules, there were fears that we wouldn’t see any new episod

      3 min read

    • Article

      Book CLUB

      Jan 4, 2022

      Book CLUB
      1 min read

    • Article

      Conan Doyle Does A Sherlock

      Jun 5, 2021

      Conan Doyle Does A Sherlock
      2 min read

    • Article

      Science Fiction And Fantasy

      Jul 13, 2023

      John Michael Greer Sphinx Books 2023 Pb, 180pp, £14.99, ISBN 9781912573851 John Michael Greer’s name will be familiar to many FT readers as one of the foremost and most reliable writers on the occult. The Witch of Criswell is a young adult novel abou

      4 min read

    • Article

      Books Of The Month

      Feb 16, 2024

      By Gareth Brown When Cassie receives a small leather-bound book, her life is transformed. It has the power to make “any door every door”, allowing her to walk out of her New York apartment on to a street in Paris, Venice, Prague – anywhere she’s been

      2 min read

    • Article

      Haunted King’s Lynn

      Jan 27, 2022

      Haunted King’s Lynn
      9 min read

    • Article

      Slanted & enchanted

      May 30, 2021

      MIRRORLAND, by Carole Johnstone (HarperCollins, $32.99), is the imaginary place identical twins Cat and El have created in the basement of the strange house near Edinburgh they share with their neurotic mother and frightening grandfather. They have m

      3 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Feb 1, 2023

      by Veronica Henry (£14.99, HB, Orion) Let’s be honest, what could be more thrilling than spending 30 days alone in Paris? When Juliet separates amicably from her husband,she realises it’s time to visit the enchanting city that stole her heart a long

      2 min read

    • Article

      Wendy Holden

      Sep 14, 2023

      Wendy Holden
      2 min read

    • Article

      Book Reviews

      May 31, 2021

      Adam Cruise | Tafelberg | 9780624091578 | R295 It’s not about the bats, it’s about you and me – and our governments. The Covid-19 pandemic put the spotlight on how human expansion has led to an increase in zoonotic viruses jumping species, and calls

      5 min read

    • Article

      Science Fiction And Fantasy

      Dec 3, 2020

      John Ironmonger Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2020 Hb, 276pp, £16.99, ISBN 9780297608233 Heloise was born in 1759, when Halley’s comet was in the sky; her father, a French nobleman and astronomer, named her after the god of the Sun. Her family are caught up

      4 min read

    • Article

      Mystery & suspense

      Jan 21, 2022

      Celebrated forensic expert Lincoln Rhyme is giving evidence in the trial of mobster Victor Buryak who has been charged with murder. Rhyme’s testimony is supposed to clinch the case but when gaping holes in his forensic evidence emerge, Buryak walks f

      3 min read

    • Article

      Le Carré's Dirty Linen

      Oct 18, 2023

      The Secret Life of John le Carré By Adam Sisman Profile Books £16.99 Halfway through Adam Sisman's 2015 biography of John le Carré, something odd occurs. The book simply shuts up shop. You can all but hear the rattle of the roller shutter as if it's

      3 min read

    • Article

      What To Read?

      May 26, 2023

      BY ELEANOR CATTON GRANTA Described by one critic as “a Kiwi Jonathan Franzen”, this fantastic novel explores what happens when a hippie collective clashes with a ruthless billionaire. Mira and Shelley run Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening group tha

      3 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Nov 5, 2020

      Sadly, the wonderfully prescient quotation from Samuel Pepys [FT397:70], “A dram in exchange for the pox is an ill bargain indeed,” is not by the great diarist, but from a spoof Twitter account. (https://londonist.com/london/books-and-poetry/samuel-p

      13 min read

    • Article

      War In Ukraine, Death Of The Queen, Elon Musk … Why Are Nostradamus’s ‘Predictions’ Still Winning Converts?

      Oct 10, 2022

      There is good news and bad news. The good news is that, as you may have noticed, the world didn’t end on 4 July 1999. Hence the headline in the Guardian on Monday 5 July 1999: “Nostradamus wrong (please ignore if the world ended yesterday).” Writing

      7 min read

    • Article

      When World Stops Spinning

      Mar 29, 2020

      When World Stops Spinning
      3 min read

    • Article

      Frances Wilson

      Oct 20, 2021

      Frances Wilson
      3 min read

    • Article

      Science Fiction And Fantasy

      Feb 25, 2021

      Will Maclean William Heinemann 2020 Hb, 406pp, £14.99, ISBN 9781785152375 We all know that Fortean Times is inspirational – and it’s inspired three very different novels. First, directly influenced by Bob Fischer’s article “The Haunted Generation” (F

      4 min read

    Reviews for Prophecy

    4.5/5

    3 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Awesome!