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Awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger – the highest honor in British crime writing The third Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C. J. Sansom, the bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and Dominion C. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew Shardlake series, Dissolution, was selected by P. D. James in The Wall Street Journal as one of her top five all-time favorite books. Now in Sovereign, Shardlake faces the most terrifying threat in the age of Tudor England: imprisonment int he Tower of London. Shardlake and his loyal assistant, Jack Barak, find themselves embroiled in royal intrigue when a plot against King Henry VIII is uncovered in York and a dangerous conspirator they've been charged with transporting to London is connected to the death of a local glazer.
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Sovereign: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery, C. J. Sansom
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- Released
- 2008
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- C. J. Sansom
- Publisher
- PENGUIN GROUP
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN10
- 0143113178
- ISBN13
- 9780143113171
- Series
- Matthew Shardlake
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery Novels, American Literature, Detective Fiction, Gifts for men, England, Gifts for grandma, Historical Mystery, 16th century, Tudors, Henry VIII Tudor, King, 1491-1547, Catherine Howard, Queen, 1520-1542
- First published
- 2006
- Original title
- Sovereign
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
- Description
- Awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger – the highest honor in British crime writing The third Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C. J. Sansom, the bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and Dominion C. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew Shardlake series, Dissolution, was selected by P. D. James in The Wall Street Journal as one of her top five all-time favorite books. Now in Sovereign, Shardlake faces the most terrifying threat in the age of Tudor England: imprisonment int he Tower of London. Shardlake and his loyal assistant, Jack Barak, find themselves embroiled in royal intrigue when a plot against King Henry VIII is uncovered in York and a dangerous conspirator they've been charged with transporting to London is connected to the death of a local glazer.