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The 3rd in the Shardlake series and full of interesting facts. I did find the book repetitive in parts, there are only so many times that you can talk about the weather or visit your horse in the stables. It's quite amazing how trouble finds Shardlake or he finds trouble himself. Due to the similarities between the first three books, at this stage I don't feel inclined to carry on reading anymore in the series. It's a good 16thcentury period read.

The last book of the Shardlake series and as full of the twists and turns that you'd expect. I love these characters, and Nicholas is a fine addition but I did wonder if Matthew will ever learn from past mistakes, it seems not.
This book sees Matthew return to the double crossings and manipulations of Henry VIII's Court, fraught with the ever shifting agendas, religious alliances, and Henry's ever changeable moods.
A fantastic end to the series.

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One of my favorite detective series of all time. If you like Tudor history and detective stories, then this is the series for you.❣️

This is C.J. Sansom's last Shardlake novel, so I read it with a heavy heart to begin with. As always there is a mystery involving a distant relative of Anne “Beheaded“ Boleyn, but 80% of the novel (the whole middle part) deals with Kett's Rebellion, a farmers' rebellion in Norfolk (Tombland to be exact) against the upper classes. The history was riveting and (again) had me looking up a bunch of stuff. I'll miss Shardlake's medieval adventures.

I loved the four books preceding this one but I found this one hard to rate. Either Sansom was doing something very clever and making the reader as frustrated with Matthew as Jack is, or he pitched this was slightly wrong. I still don't know because even if it's the former, I don't really want this level of frustration when reading. It was less suspenseful and more maddening.

Second book in the Shardlake series. Excellent character development and lots of interesting historical detail, along with two suspenseful plotlines.

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At 800p if I'd nodded off in bed rdg this h/back it might have knocked me out but it was worth (albeit it cd have lost 100 pages or so) the heavy lifting. Shardlake is a fave character + here in the reign of Edward VI he is asked by Elizabeth to go to Norwich where her distant relative faces a murder charge. He is drawn into a rebellion (true event) as enclosures are resisted with force. V good story + fascinating history, this is a great series

7 years after reading the 1st in this series which I somewhat enjoyed it was time for me to read the 2nd. Describing what it was like in 16th Century London along with some of its execution methods and a good storyline that kept me interested throughout its 600 pages I learnt a lot about those times. Being quite graphic in places I started getting nightmares as the Epilogue approached. I will view those London streets differently now.

I ❤️ the Shardlake series and this one‘s on sale today. Highly recommended for any lover of English historical fiction.

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This is the 6th and possibly penultimate book in the Shardlake series. Our Tudor era lawyer is once again drawn into political machinations when he is asked by Lord Parr to find a stolen manuscript on behalf of his niece, Queen Catherine. Hotheaded Nicholas Overton is a good addition as an apprentice lawyer. As usual, Shardlake doesn‘t know when to let sleeping dogs lie, which leads to danger.