![]() ![]() Heartstone, the fifth book in the Shardlake series, is now available from Viking. ![]() James picked as one of her five favorite mysteries in The Wall Street Journal Dark Fire, winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award Sovereign and Revelation, a USA Today Best Book of the Year for 2009, are all available from Penguin. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īfter a career as an attorney, C. Then Shardlake stumbles upon a cache of secret papers that throws into doubt the legitimacy of the entire royal line, and a chain of events unfolds that threatens Shardlake with the most terrifying fate of the age: imprisonment in the Tower of London. In addition to processing petitions to the king, Shardlake’s task is to protect a dangerous conspirator until he is transported back to London for interrogation.īut when a local glazier is murdered, things get a little more complicated as the murder seems to be not only connected to Shardlake’s prisoner but also to the royal family itself. Awaiting his arrival are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his loyal assistant, Jack Barak. ![]() A plot against the throne has been uncovered, and Henry VIII has set off on a spectacular progress from London to York, along with a thousand soldiers, the cream of the nobility, and his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, to quell his rebellious northern subjects. James’s favorite mystery authors comes the third Shardlake novelĪutumn 1541. ![]()
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