About the book: 1996 / Historical novel-trilogy (“Madame Snake”, “Poisoner”, “Whore Queen”) - one of the most interesting among the wonderful ones written by English writer Victorine Holt, and its genre can be defined as love adventure. The irrepressible thirst for power, the desire to rule the country by directing the actions of her children, the treachery of the Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici, became the cause of many mysterious and terrible crimes in France in the second half of the 16th century.