fifth mystery featuring English attorney Matthew Shardlake (after 2009s Revelation). Like Hilary Mantel, he produces densely textured historical novels that absorb their readers in another time’ - Andrew Taylor, Spectatorįollow Matthew Shardlake into the dark heart of Tudor England with the rest of the series: Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation, Heartstone, Lamentation and Tombland. Read more about Winter In Madrid and other books by C. ‘Sansom has the trick of writing an enthralling narrative. But Shardlake's investigation soon forces him to question everything he hears, and everything that he intrinsically believes. Like Hilary Mantel, he produces densely textured. Sansom's bestselling adventures of Matthew Shardlake continue in the fourth book, the haunting Revelation. Perfect for fans of HIlary Mantel and Philippa Gregory, C. His horrific murder is accompanied by equally sinister acts of sacrilege - a black cockerel sacrificed on the altar, and the disappearance of Scarnsea's Great Relic.ĭr Matthew Shardlake, lawyer and long-time supporter of Reform, has been sent by Cromwell into this atmosphere of treachery and death. Revelation (The Shardlake series, 4) Paperback 16 July 2015. Cromwell's Commissioner Robin Singleton, has been found dead, his head severed from his body. There can only be one outcome: the monasteries are to be dissolved.īut on the Sussex coast, at the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control. Under the order of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent through the country to investigate the monasteries. Sansom’s books are arguably the best Tudor novels going' – Sunday TimesĮngland, 1537: 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. Perfect for fans of Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory.

After one of Cromwell's commissioners is brutally murdered, Matthew Shardlake is drawn into an investigation that becomes darker than he could have ever imagined. Samson's phenomenal, bestselling Shardlake series. Tudor England is brought to vivid life in Dissolution, the first in C.J.

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