If you have been following my adventures with this series, you know it quickly is becoming one of my favorites. Sansom’s sixth Shardlake novel, “Lamentation”. Can Shardlake and his friends save the queen from the heresy hunt in time? The stakes could never be higher in C.J. When Matthew Shardlake’s main supporter, Queen Catherine Parr’s book Lamentation of a Sinner, goes missing, Shardlake must navigate the religious divide carefully to retrieve the missing manuscript before it is discovered. Those who own books that were deemed “controversial” were under a shroud of suspicion. Executions over faith, like the death of Anne Askew, run rampant across London. With such distinct factions, those are not Protestant or Catholic, like the Anabaptists, are deemed heretics and they are hunted down. Rumors swirl that the once-mighty King Henry VIII is gravely ill and his councilors, both Protestants and Catholics, are vying for power to see who will help Henry’s young son, Edward when he becomes king.
The year is 1546 and England is once again in turmoil.
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