Spring 1543 - King Henry VIII is wooing Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife.

Matthew Shardlake is working on the case of a a teenage boy who has been placed in the Bedlam insane asylum, and fears that the boy's terrifying religious mania could lead to him being turned heretic.

When an old friend is horrifically murdered, Shardlake promises his widow that he will bring the killer to justice.

This is a historical mystery :)

This is another historical murder mystery from the Shardlake series.
After his friend is brutally murdered Shardlake vows to find the killer. Little did he know what would be unveiled during his investigations....

A gripping and thrilling work of fiction, woven in with fact, fabulous ! I will definitely be reading more CJ Sansom :)

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Released for four challenges:
Rhymes with Cat
Never Judge a Book by Its Cover Week 39 redo
Let's Play Scrabble
Tick Tock Challenge

Brought back to the UK to be sent as a wishlist

Sending to greenbadger as I remember promising her book four n five
when I saw her buying book three ☺

Now have you read book one and two yet missus ? ;-)
Enjoy!!

I still have books five n six at least on mount tbr . they will be heading your way too if I remember lol

(fits in nicely with the tick tock challenge)

Thank you very much Diane! x

I've read book one, waiting for the ray for book two. Won't be too long before I get to this one, I think!

Fourth in the Shardlake series. Shardlake, the hunchbacked lawyer, is once again pursuing a delicate case - this time of a young man sent to Bedlam for obsessive praying. His case seems symptomatic of society at large, as once more there is confrontation between Catholics and Reformers, as Henry VIII seems to be turning to more traditional religion. Then an old friend and fellow-lawyer is horrifically murdered and Shardlake promises to investigate, leading him once more into political circles as there's a potential link to Catherine Parr, and a further link to religious obsession and the Book of Revelation. This series gets better and better, Sansom paints Tudor England brilliantly and with the fascinating interlinked plotlines this is difficult to put down.

Released on the book buffet at the Ipswich Unconvention.

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