It is 1537 and Thomas Cromwell has ordered that all monasteries should be dissolved. Cromwell's Commissioner is found dead, his head severed from his body...

The year is 1540. Shardlake has been pulled, against his better judgement, into defending Elizabeth Wentworth, charged with murdering her cousin. He is po...

England, 1543. The body of Roger Elliard, a friend of Matthew Shardlake, one of the best detectives in London, was found in a fountain on the grounds of Linc...

A compelling thriller and love story set in post-civil War SpainFans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind and Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong will fa...

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 res...

From one of P. D. James's favorite mystery authors comes the third Shardlake novelAutumn 1541. A plot against the throne has been uncovered, and Henry VII...

Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel....

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. H...

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 ...

1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers, and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German war agains...

Christopher John Sansom (Christopher John Sansom) is a British writer, author of detective novels about Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer-detective during the time...

Spain. 1940 As a translator for the British Embassy, Harry Brett, on assignment from the British Secret Service, arrives in Madrid, destroyed by the Civil Wa...