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Sovereign: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery

✍ Scribed by C. J. Sansom


Publisher
Penguin
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
395 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1101221305

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✦ Synopsis


The third Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C. J. Sansom, the bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and DominionC. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew Shardlake series, Dissolution, was selected by P. D. James in The Wall Street Journal as one of her top five all-time favorite books. Now in Sovereign, Shardlake faces the most terrifying threat in the age of Tudor England: imprisonment int he Tower of London.Shardlake and his loyal assistant, Jack Barak, find themselves embroiled in royal intrigue when a plot against King Henry VIII is uncovered in York and a dangerous conspirator they've been charged with transporting to London is connected to the death of a local glazer.

✦ Subjects


A Mystery


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