Sovereign
The third installment of C. J. Sansom's acclaimed Matthew Shardlake mystery series 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...
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The third installment of C. J. Sansom's acclaimed Matthew Shardlake mystery series
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 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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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780670038312
Publish date: 22 marca 2007
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 583
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Medieval,
Mystery,
Historical Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Murder Mystery
Series: Matthew Shardlake (#3)
The next book in the Matthew Shardlake series and this one has to be the best one so far. I simply couldn´t put this book down, so much tension was there. I loved the historical backdrop of this novel, Shardlake and Barack being in York with the Progress and their encounter with Henry VIII. and the ...
bookshelves: historical-fiction, mystery-thriller, published-2006, re-visit-2015, radio-4, tudor, series, play-dramatisation, paper-read, hardback, a-cut-above Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from January 17, 2007 to October 03, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bglnfRevisit is ...
Three things I fear when I start a book. A book which is not borrowed but bought from my own savings, a book which with these three points can spell “Yawanathon” for me and can literally throw me into financial ruin for investing in a worthless adventure. Those three points are,1. The author’s procl...
I need more stars! How did it take me this long to discover CJ Sansom? I'm not sure, but I am grateful for this book showing up in a local used book store and catching my eye. A group read of Dissolution got me started on this series, and the rest, as they say, is history.Oh, the history! No other w...
So close to four stars! But there was one thing throughout the book that drove me absolutely bonkers, forcing me to knock half a star off and give this book 3.5 stars. Sansom has so much talent but he really needs to fire his editing team. When it comes to grammatical errors in books, I'm not usuall...