Lamentation: A Shardlake Novel (The Shardlake Series, 6)

A triumph both as detective fiction and as a novel ... superior to Hilary Mantel.--The Independent Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councilors are engaged in a power struggle; whoever wins will control the government. The Catholic party focuses its attack on Henry's sixth wife--and Matthew Shardlake's old mentor--Queen Catherine Parr. The Queen has authored a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, so radically Protestant that if it came to the King's attention it could bring both her and her sympathizers crashing down. Although the secret book was kept hidden inside a locked chest in the Queen's private chamber, it has inexplicably vanished. Shardlake's investigations take him on a trail that begins among the backstreet printshops of London, but leads him and his trusty assistant Jack Barak into the dark and labyrinthine world of court politics, a world Shardlake swore never to enter again.

• | Author: C.J. Sansom
• | Publisher: Mulholland Books
• | Publication Date: Feb 02, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 672 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0316254975
• | ISBN-13: 9780316254977