Tombland by C.J.
Sansom 866 p.
Henry VIII’s eleven-year-old son Edward VI now rules England
(well, his uncle the Duke of Somerset actually rules). Intrepid lawyer Matthew
Shardlake is feeling his age and his physical disability more and more, but
when Lady Elizabeth (later to become Queen Elizabeth I) requests his help in
exonerating her distant Boleyn relative of murder, he knows he must treat it as
a royal demand. The stakes are already high and the intrigue thick, and then
Sharklake and his trusted associates are thrown into the middle of Kett’s
Rebellion, a bloody clash between peasants and aristocratic landholders. Will
anyone survive? This page-turner concludes with an informative historical essay
and extensive endnotes – perfect for the English history nerd.
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