Events will converge on board one of the King's great warships, primed for battle in Portsmouth harbour.

The emerging mysteries around the young ward, and the events that destroyed Ellen's family nineteen years before, involve Shardlake in reunions both with an old friend and an old enemy close to the throne. Despite Shardlake vowing to take a back seat from Royal intrigues, the Tudor lawyer/detective is pulled into a case at the behest of Queen Catherine Parr. ‘Heartstone’, the penultimate book of the six, involves a puzzle which kept me guessing until the reveal. A massive French armada is threatening Engl. Sansom-will dazzle both mystery fans and Tudor history buffs. Sansom (Contributor), 1447285875 9781447285878 978-1447285878 (Contributor), 102 ratings See all formats and editions Paperback 32.00 4 New from 31. The Matthew Shardlake series by CJ Sansom continues to get better. The clever plotting and brilliantly evoked world of Heartstone-the fifth Matthew Shardlake mystery from bestselling author C. Asked to investigate claims of 'monstrous wrongs' committed against a young ward of the court, which have already involved one mysterious death, Shardlake and his assistant Barak journey to Portsmouth.Once arrived, Shardlake and Barak find themselves in a city preparing to become a war zone and Shardlake takes the opportunity to also investigate the mysterious past of Ellen Fettiplace, a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam. Sansom (Author), Heartstone (The Shardlake series) by C.

The King has debased the currency to pay for the war, and England is in the grip of soaring inflation and economic crisis.Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. Sansoms bestselling Tudor crime series, featuring lawyer-detective Matthew. Sansom's fifith spellbinding mystery inthe Shardlake series.Summer, 1545. An enthralling BBC Radio 4 full-cast adaptation of the fifth novel in C.

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