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Shardlake remains a keen legal mind and appears to have the respect of many senior officials at Court, which is significant with the history he possesses.

France remains a thorn in the side of King Henry VIII and he has done all he can to prepare the country for battle, including debasing the already fragile currency. I had myself witnessed the wild, screaming panic that came over her if she were made even to step over the threshold.Huge consignments of men, arms and supplies are choking the roads leading to Portsmouth, where the English fleet is assembling. We are as fond of the canny but vulnerable Tudor lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his macho sidekick Barak as we are of Patrick O'Brien's Aubrey and Maturin or Terry Pratchett's Lord Vetinari and Sam Vines. The family with the children could have been a story in itself, although a bit unbelievable to me, as it turned out. Set during the reign of Henry VIII, the novels focus on various crimes, which the intrepid Shardlake investigates while dealing with the prevailing situation of London and England under Henry's increasingly erratic reign. The emerging mysteries around the young ward, and the events that destroyed Ellen¿s family nineteen years before, involve Shardlake in reunions both with an old friend and an old enemy close to the throne.

He sees at first hand the English flotilla of warships, including the King's favourite vessel, the Mary Rose. Rich in the history of these turbulent times this is a masterful read and one of the best historical crime novels you could read. Whether it is the dissolution of a monastery, a race to find a mysterious flame, a radical killing based on the book of Revelation, or the sinking of the Mary Rose, Sansom takes us on a non-stop roller coaster of emotions. This will require Shardlake to visit the Court of Wards, seeking not only an injunction against the placement of these two wards, but to discover what has been going on. Sunday Times Culture Fans will need no introduction to Matthew Shardlake, the lawyer embroiled in dark secrets during the reign of Henry VIII.His interest in Ellen Fettiplace, 35yo resident of The Bedlam asylum, is complicated by her romantic attraction to him, and he feels guilty that he cannot reciprocate.

Sansom handles a large cast and a complex narrative with great skill and his set piece scenes, the sinking of the Mary Rose, for instance are simply stupendous. J. Sansom’s writing raises the sense of Tudor England from the pages, creating vivid images of the scenes in the reader’s mind. An abridged audiobook on CD, narrated by Anton Lesser, was released by Macmillan Digital Audio in 2010.The dastardly Richard Rich, who I have always felt was a bit shady, but Sansom made me hate him even more. The book also concerns preparations for the Battle of the Solent and the King's warship, the Mary Rose. Another enjoyable Shardlake book that sees our hero move between London, Portsmouth and rural Hampshire and Sussex as he takes on two cases: one for a high-ranking client and the other for himself. There were points where I was starting to get concerned just from the graphic details of some of these deaths and executions. Sansom is both a qualified lawyer and a PhD in English History, so he is able to insert credible elements from both aspects of his professional life into the narratives.

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