Dissolution

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July 2012 Guest Editor Barbara Erskine on the Shardlake series...

Although these have been written more recently, I wanted to include C J Sansom’s wonderful historical series about Tudor lawyer, Matthew Shardlake. My love of mystery and  crime is doubly satisfied with a historical setting which comes over as authentic and vividly exciting.

The Shardlake series
1. Dissolution
2. Dark Fire
3. Sovereign
4. Revelation
5. Heartstone

A 2011 World Book Night selection.

Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church and the country is waking up to savage new laws. Under the order of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent through the country to investigate the monasteries. But on the Sussex coast, at the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control.

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About Dissolution

The 1st instalment in the wildly popular Matthew Shardlake mystery series, now available from Vintage Canada.It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church. The country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers it has ever seen.

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