Heving successfully avoided the political scheming recently, he is now right back in the middle of it. With the dissolution currently taking place though, he finds there’s more to the death than first meets the eye. Shardlake works as a lawyer in the service of Henry's younger daughter, Lady Elizabeth, in the novel Tombland (published in 2018), investigating a murder during the time of Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk. Although Shardlake distances himself from politics, it is only a matter of time before Catherine and the monarchy become his problem. Alongside this, Shardlake is also representing the interests of Adam, a young man who is seriously disturbed and is confined in the famous mental hospital, Bedlam.

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With religious tension rising, the Catholic party shifts their attention to Queen Catherine Parr, Henry's sixth wife. It’s however doesn’t take long before chaos and slaughter blights the village, as neighbor turns against neighbor in desperation to possess the precious stone. Sit in a corner with a cup of tea, curl up under a thick quilt in bed, lock yourself away or escape every evening to its pages.If you've read this book, I completely agree with Guy's take on the Book of Revelation, which is a view C. If there is anything I can point to as a negative with this book - a negative for me at least - it would be the amount of religious discussion inserted into the story.

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The play that year was a new interlude, The Trial of Treasure, a heavy-handed moral fable with the gorgeously robed actors portraying the vices and virtues of mankind. Many believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent.I think my concentration has improved since the lock down began, perhaps because it now feels like we are actually something proactive, which hopefully works. In each book, Shardlake solves at least two mysteries, one related to his law practice and one related to the politics of Tudor England. Establishing a somewhat darker tone to what he had previously, it manages to convey some grander ideas and themes overall.

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Alongside Barak and Tamasin are having problems in their marriage after having lost their child, while Shardlake’s friend, the physician Guy has hired an apprentice who seems perfect on the surface but of course all is not as it seems. When Shardlake's good friend is found murdered, his body dumped in a public fountain, this angry barrister promises to find the killer. Sansom’s Revelation, perhaps the first Tudor serial-killer mystery, which also illuminates 16th century attitudes to madness and fundamentalism. The story digs deeper than most of the Tudor history with which I am familiar, usually Henry VIII chasing a new wife or his offspring—Elizabeth—seeking to rule in ways never thought of before.No one wants the added pressure of the king scrutinizing their every move, and so, it is Shardlake’s job to ensure the king doesn’t know anything about the murders—and the potential link to Catherine Parr.