Matthew Shardlake novels
Author
2) Dark fire
Author
Series
Matthew Shardlake novels volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When a friend's niece is charged with murder and threatened with torture for her refusal to speak, 1540 lawyer Matthew Shardlake is granted a reprieve to investigate the case if he will also accept a dangerous assignment to find a legendary weapon.
3) Sovereign
Author
Series
Matthew Shardlake novels volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
This third Shardlake novel is set in the autumn of 1541, during the reign of Henry VIII. This time Matthew Shardlake is faced with the most terrifying fate of the age: imprisonment in the Tower of London.
4) Revelation
Author
Series
Matthew Shardlake novels volume 4
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Defending a young religious zealot who is being held in the Bedlam hospital for the insane, Matthew Shardlake investigates a series of murders with ties to Lady Catherine Parr, a reform sympathizer and future wife of Henry VIII.
6) Lamentation
Author
Series
Matthew Shardlake novels volume 6
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"As Henry VIII lies on his deathbed, an incendiary manuscript threatens to tear his court apart. Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councilors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government. 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...
7) Tombland
Author
Series
Matthew Shardlake novels volume 7
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Spring, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos. The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle, Edward Seymour, Lord Hertford, rules as Edward's regent and Protector. In the kingdom, radical Protestants are driving the old religion into extinction, while the Protector's prolonged war with Scotland has led to hyperinflation and economic collapse. Rebellion is stirring among the peasantry. Matthew...