Lamentation: 6 (Shardlake) - Softcover

Sansom, C J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316254975 ISBN 13: 9780316254977

Publisher: Mulholland Books, 2016

Synopsis

"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.

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Review:

PRAISE FOR C.J. SANSOM AND THE SHARDLAKE SERIES:

"C.J. Sansom has long been one of my favorite writers."--Kate Atkinson

"Among the most distinguished of modern historical novelists."--P.D. James

"Sansom has an unerring sense of pace and a deft historical touch."--The New Yorker

"Sansom brings alive all levels of English society, from cutthroats and common soldiers to the king and queen themselves."--Washington Post

"A richly entertaining and scholarly series. History never seemed so real."--New York Times Book Review

"Sansom seems to have born with, or instinctively acquired, that precious balance of creativity and research, history and humanity."--Chicago Tribune

Book Description:

The eagerly anticipated Shardlake novel from the number one bestselling author.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mulholland Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0316254975
• ISBN 13: 9780316254977
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672