![]() ![]() Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time. His fellow reformer (and Henry’s loyal servant), Thomas Cromwell, asks (or rather, orders) Matthew to undertake an investigation into the death of a royal commissioner that occurred in a monastery scheduled to be destroyed, located on the south coast of England.” Posted by epallant at 1:41 pm He is one of the reformers, as the followers of the king’s new religion are called. ![]() ![]() The main character of this series is a hunchbacked lawyer named Matthew Shardlake. ' The best crime novel I have read this year' Colin Dexter 3 'Remarkable.the sights, the voices, the very smell of this turbulent age seem to rise from the page' P. In 1537, England has been sundered in two by religion: There are those who have gone along with Henry’s decision to dissolve the monasteries and institute the Church of England, and those who are still loyal to the Catholic Church, overseen by the pope in Rome. Dissolution has been well received by critics, although there has been some criticism of the language and detail in the writing. Sansom’s Dissolution is the first in a series of historical mysteries set in Tudor England during the reign of Henry VIII. ![]()
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