Lamentation
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Lamentation
Narrated by:
Steven Crossley
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Narrated by:
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Steven Crossley
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Written by:
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C.J. Sansom
Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councilors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government. As heretics are hunted across London, and radical Protestants are burned at the stake, the Catholic party focuses its attack on Henry's sixth wife -- and Matthew Shardlake's old mentor -- Queen Catherine Parr.
Shardlake, still haunted by his narrow escape from death the year before, steps into action when the beleaguered and desperate Queen summons him to Whitehall Palace to help her recover a dangerous manuscript. 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. Only one page has been recovered -- clutched in the hand of a murdered London printer.
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. In this crucible of power and ambition, Protestant friends can be as dangerous as Catholic enemies, and those with shifting allegiances can be the most dangerous of all.
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What the critics say
"Sansom offers a master class in royal intrigue"—Kirkus Reviews
PRAISE FOR C.J. SANSOM AND THE MATTHEW SHARDLAKE NOVELS:
"One of my favorite writers."—Kate Atkinson
"One of my favorite writers."—Kate Atkinson
"Among the most distinguished of modern historical novelists."—P.D. James
"Sansom has an unerring sense of pace and a deft historical touch."—The New Yorker
"Sansom brings alive all levels of English society, from cutthroats and common soldiers to the king and queen themselves."—Washington Post
"A richly entertaining and scholarly series. History never seemed so real."—New York Times Book Review
"Sansom seems to have born with, or instinctively acquired, that precious balance of creativity and research, history and humanity."—Chicago Tribune
Continue the series
1. when you're finished with this book, Lamentation, you only have Tombland left... unless Samson is going to do the honourable thing and write another book to continue the story of the lives of the characters who survive Henry VIII in L and eventually his offspring in T.
2. Steven Crossley is a great narrator but you have some other people to get through before you make it to Mr Crossley
3. i still see no book 8.
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