She was inducted into the Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame in 2014. Glasgow-based author Mina is the author of several crime novels and the recipient of numerous accolades, including the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year.
Describing it as “a dark tale of sex, secrets and lies”, Polygon says: “ Rizzio looks at a shocking historical murder through a modern lens and explores the lengths that men, and women, will go to in search of love and power.” Mina’s novella dramatises the events that led up to that night. Rizzio is “a radical new take on one of the darkest episodes in Scottish history”: the bloody assassination of David Rizzio, the private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, in her chambers in Holyrood Palace in March 1566. He says: “These books are sharp, provocative and darkly comic, mining that seam of sedition and psychological drama that has always featured in the best of Scottish literature.” James Crawford, editor-at-large at Polygon, commissioned the series. The series aims to reclaim history for a modern audience and Polygon says that “while each book has a unique voice and distinctive individual identity, the Darkland Tales are united by their punky, anarchic and deliberately in-your-face aesthetic”. The first Darkland Tales title will be Rizzio by award-winning novelist Denise Mina pictured right, with volumes to follow by Jenni Fagan and Alan Warner in 2022. It has also made two new signings to its poetry list. Polygon, an imprint of independent Edinburgh-based publisher Birlinn, is launching a new series of dramatic fictional retellings of stories from history, myth and legend written by Scottish authors, called the Darkland Tales.
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