![]() REVIEW: Shardlake is older and during this period of religious tumult, continuing working as a lawyer and trying to keep his head down. Shardlake, still haunted by his narrow escape from death the year before, steps into action when the beleaguered and desperate Queen summons him to Whitehall Palace to help her recover a dangerous manuscript… And that’s all I’m prepared to reveal of this very chatty blurb that reveals far too many early plotpoints in the book. As heretics are hunted across London, and radical Protestants are burned at the stake, the Catholic party focuses its attack on Henry’s sixth wife – and Matthew Shardlake’s old mentor – Queen Catherine Parr. ![]() His Protestant and Catholic councilors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle whoever wins will control the government. ![]() King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. So I got hold of Lamentation to see if Matthew Shardlake’s adventures still had the power to enthrall…īLURB – truncated: Summer, 1546. ![]() This is one of those series – I have formerly loved this series – as my review of Revelation makes clear. One of my targets for last year was to go back and resume following series that I’ve loved, but subsequently neglected in favour of the new and shiny. ![]()
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