Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake #6) Best Sellers Rank : #4
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"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.
"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.