After working in a variety of jobs, he retrained as a solicitor and practised in Sussex, until becoming a full-time writer. Sansom was educated at Birmingham University, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. For what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer.?" Good Reads Shardlake follows a trail of horrific murders that are igniting frenzied talk of witchcraft and demonic possession. When an old friend of Matthew Shardlake is murdered, his investigations leads to connections to both, and to the prophecies of the book of Revelation. Meanwhile, a teenage boy, a religious maniac, has been placed in the Bedlam hospital for the insane. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. But this time the object of his affections is resisting. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. No other markings inner pages, spine intact, no creases. This book has been read, very minor wear to covers, minor pencil marking first inner page. His search leads him to both Cranmer and Catherine Parr - and with the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation.Īs London's Bishop Bonner prepares a purge of Protestants Shardlake, together with his assistant, Jack Barak, and his friend, Guy Malton, follow the trail of a series of horrific murders that shake them to the core, and which are already bringing frenzied talk of witchcraft and a demonic possession - for what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer. When an old friend is horrifically murdered Shardlake promises his widow, for whom he has long had complicated feelings, to bring the killer to justice. Should he be released to his parents, when his terrifying actions could lead to him being burned as a heretic? Matthew Shardlake, meanwhile, is working on the case of a teenage boy, a religious maniac locked in the Bedlam hospital for the insane. The sights, the voices, the very smell of this turbulent age seem to rise from the page." P.D. Sansom's bestselling adventures of Matthew Shardlake continue in the fourth title of the series, Revelation.
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