Title: This is not a biography
Product review: . . . it reads like a bad lawyer's closing argument in Mary's defense at a trial. Why bad? Because Fraser, instead of confronting the evidence against Mary, ignores it all. This is certainly not an impartial biography or even an open-minded one; Fraser admits in her preface that she adores Mary, and refuses to acknowledge any evidence against her -- Casket Letters, coded messages to Anthony Babington approving of the plot to kill Elizabeth, signing her kingdom away to France when she married the Dauphin. This should have been privately printed by a vanity press at the author's expense, not presented as valid biography by a reputable publisher.
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