The Tudor Secret
- Published
- 1 February 2011
- Pages
- 327
- ISBN-13
- 9780312658502
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Tudor Secret is a novel by C.W. Gortner, published in 2011 at 327 pages. It opens The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles series and is followed here by The Tudor Conspiracy. The series ran to completion in 2014 across 3 books. Originally self-published in 2004 as The Secret Lion (Heliographica Press); St. Martin's Press acquired and republished it under this title in 2011 as the launch of the Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles. Not a separate book from The Secret Lion -- tracked here once, under its trade-published title, following this catalogue's convention for retitled reissues (cf. Lip Service in m-j-rose.json).
Key facts about The Tudor Secret
The Tudor Secret is a novel by C.W. Gortner. Readers have had it since 1 February 2011. It runs to 327 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Tudor Secret. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780312658502 to find the main one.
The Tudor Secret is book 1 of 3 in The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. The Tudor Vendetta is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 21 October 2014.
Additionally, C.W. Gortner writes To Catch a Leopard as a separate series. Those series sit on our historical fiction / espionage and romantic caper shelves. Meanwhile, The Saint Laurent Muse is the latest published C.W. Gortner book on file, from 18 March 2025.
About C.W. Gortner
C.W. Gortner (Christopher Willis Gortner, 1964-2025) was an American historical novelist, half-Spanish by birth and raised in a fishing village near Malaga, Spain, before settling in California. See every C.W. Gortner book in order.
Its place in The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles
The Tudor Secret is book 1 in the The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles series. It is followed by The Tudor Conspiracy. See the full The Elizabeth I Spymaster Chronicles reading order.
Before he became known for his novels about famous historical women, C.W. Gortner wrote this Tudor-court spy trilogy following Brendan Prescott, a stableboy of murky parentage swept into the deadly intrigue surrounding the young Princess Elizabeth. The Tudor Secret opens in the final days of Edward VI's reign, as Brendan is pulled from Elizabeth's household into a web of secrets involving his own hidden birth and the succession crisis engulfing England. The Tudor Conspiracy finds him operating as a spy for…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312658502
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312603908
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781429993180