Sovereign: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery
β Scribed by C. J. Sansom
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 395 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1101221305
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β¦ 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.
β¦ Subjects
A Mystery
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
SUMMARY: It is spring, 1543 and King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife but this time the object of his affections is resisting. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformis
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.
RESEΓA En el transcurso del verano mΓ‘s caluroso del siglo, Enrique VIII planea librarse de su cuarta esposa, la alemana Ana de Cleves, para contraer matrimonio con la catΓ³lica Catalina Howard. Su decisiΓ³n amenaza al implacable lord Cromwell, impulsor de la Reforma, pues muchos desean su caΓd