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Lamentation: C. J. Sansom
Lamentation: C. J. Sansom
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Matthew Shardlake VI: Autumn, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors prepare for a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government and the eight year old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London and the radical Protestant Anne Askew is burned at the stake, the Catholic party focus their attack on Henry's sixth wife, the Protestant Queen Catherine Parr. Shardlake, still haunted by events aboard the Mary Rose the year before, is working on the Cotterstoke Will case, a savage dispute between rival siblings. He is unexpectedly summoned to Whitehall by his now beleaguered patron, the Queen, who has written a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, a memoir so radically Protestant that if it came to the King's attention, it could bring her and her courtly sympathisers to ruination. But although the book had been kept secret and hidden in a locked chest in the Queen's private chamber, it has inexplicably vanished. Only one page has been found, clutched in the hand of a murdered London printer. Shardlake's investigations take him among the back-street print shops of London and into the labyrthine politics of the royal court - a world he swore never to enter again. But his loyalty to the Queen will drive him into a swirl of intrigue inside Whitehall, where Catholic enemies and protestant friends can be equally dangerous and the political opportunists who follow the wind wherever it blows are more dangerous than either. The theft of the Queen's book seems to be linked to the death of Anne Askew and his involvement with the Cotterstoke litigants threatens to bring Shardlake himself to the stake. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/revelation-c-j-sansom/https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/heartstone-c-j-sansom/
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1st edition; hardback in unclipped dust jacket; dust jacket has a little cornerwear otherwise a very nice copy, Modern LiteratureShare
