As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies.

But this time the object of his affections is resisting. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission of his rebellious subjects in York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is busy trying to maintain his legal practice and keep a low profile.Īutumn, 1541. It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church and the country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers ever seen. Sansom is the bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Shardlake series, as well as Winter in Madrid and Dominion.It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Philip Kerrs debut novel is a crackling historical noir crime thriller (the first in a trilogy that later became a series) that goes to the heart of Nazi. After working in a variety of jobs, he retrained as a solicitor and practised in Sussex, until becoming a full-time writer. Sansom was educated at Birmingham University, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. For what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer.?' Good Reads

Shardlake follows a trail of horrific murders that are igniting frenzied talk of witchcraft and demonic possession. When an old friend of Matthew Shardlake is murdered, his investigations leads to connections to both, and to the prophecies of the book of Revelation. is a triumph both as detective fiction and as a novel' Independent on Sunday 'This gripping new novel by the inventive C. Meanwhile, a teenage boy, a religious maniac, has been placed in the Bedlam hospital for the insane. No other markings inner pages, spine intact, no creases. Book reviews News & Features Video Interviews Podcast Interviews Pro Connect Book Reviews. This book has been read, very minor wear to covers, minor pencil marking first inner page.

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