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Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission by his rebellious subject in York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. As well as legal work processing local petitions to the King, Shardlake has reluctantly undertaken a special mission for Archbishop Crammer - to ensure the welfare of an important but dangerous conspirator who is to be returned to London for interrogation. But the murder of a York glazier involves Shardlake in deeper mysteries, connected not only to the prisoner in York Castle but to the royal family itself. And when Shardlake and Barak stumble upon a cache of secret documents which could threaten the Tudor throne, a chain of events unfolds that will lead to Shardlake facing the most terrifying fate of the age...
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Sovereign, C. J. Sansom
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- Released
- 2006
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- Title
- Sovereign
- Language
- English
- Authors
- C. J. Sansom
- Publisher
- Pan Books
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 662
- ISBN10
- 1447217160
- ISBN13
- 9781447217169
- Series
- Matthew Shardlake
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Historical Fiction, Mystery Novels, American Literature, Detective Fiction, England, Gifts for men, 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
- Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission by his rebellious subject in York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. As well as legal work processing local petitions to the King, Shardlake has reluctantly undertaken a special mission for Archbishop Crammer - to ensure the welfare of an important but dangerous conspirator who is to be returned to London for interrogation. But the murder of a York glazier involves Shardlake in deeper mysteries, connected not only to the prisoner in York Castle but to the royal family itself. And when Shardlake and Barak stumble upon a cache of secret documents which could threaten the Tudor throne, a chain of events unfolds that will lead to Shardlake facing the most terrifying fate of the age...