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King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. The Catholic party focuses its attack on Henry's sixth wife--and Matthew Shardlake's old mentor--Queen Catherine Parr.The Queen has authored a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, so radically Protestant that if it came to the King's attention it could bring both her and her sympathizers crashing down. Although the secret book was kept hidden inside a locked chest in the Queen's private chamber, it has inexplicably vanished. "A triumph both as detective fiction and as a novel superior to Hilary Mantel."--The IndependentSummer, 1546. His Protestant and Catholic councilors are engaged in a power struggle; whoever wins will control the government. Shardlake's investigations take him on a trail that begins among the backstreet printshops of London, but leads him and his trusty assistant Jack Barak into the dark and labyrinthine world of court politics, a world Shardlake swore never to enter again.

C.J. . He lives in Sussex, England. Sansom is the bestselling author of the critically-acclaimed Matthew Sharlake series, as well as the runaway #1 international bestsellers Dominion and Winter in Madrid

Shardlake risks the lives of others to save the Queen Once again Sansom offers up a read of epic proportions with this nearly 650 page long mystery set in the era of Henry VIII during the last year of his life.Shardlake will do anything for Queen Catherine Parr, almost to the point of obsession.He endangers his friends and family in the. Fascinating History Brought Expertly to Life The latest in a great series of historical novels by C.J.Sansom that allow you to "smell" and feel the London of the time as well as the intrigue, treachery and excesses of the court of Henry VIII and his wife, Catherine Parr.The religious conflicts between Protestant and Catholic be. Intrigue in the court of Henry VIII Half Moon Kit Lamentation is one of the best books in the Tudor mystery series, starring hunchback lawyer Matthew Shardlake. It contains more intrigue in the palace of dying Henry VIII than the other books and features Henry's 6th and last wife Catherine Parr, who may be in big trouble. Shardlake,