Matthew Shardlake is back Lamentation, from the number one bestselling writer C. J. Sansom.

Summer, 1546. Ruler Henry VIII is definitely gradually, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are involved in your final and decisive power struggle; whoever is victorious will control the federal government of Henry’s successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, and the radical Protestant Anne Askew can be burned in the stake, the Catholic party focus their strike on Henry’s sixth wife, about Lamentation Matthew Shardlake’s old mentor, Queen Catherine Parr.

Shardlake, even now haunted by events aboard the warship Mary Rose the year before, is focusing on the Cotterstoke Can case, a savage dispute between competitor siblings. Then, unexpectedly, he’s summoned to Whitehall Palace and asked for help by his outdated patron, the today beleaguered and desperate Queen.

For Catherine Parr has a secret. She has created a confessional reserve, Lamentation of the Sinner, therefore radically Protestant that if it came to the King’s interest it could provide both her and her sympathizers crashing down. But, even though book was held secret and concealed in the locked chest in the Queen’s personal chamber, it has – inexplicably – vanished. Only 1 page continues to be discovered, clutched in the hands of the murdered London printing device.

Shardlake’s investigations take him on the trail that begins among the backstreet printshops of London but prospects him and Jack Barak in to the dark and labyrinthine globe from the politics from the royal court; a world he previously sworn to never enter again. Devotion to the Queen will drive him into a swirl of intrigue inside Whitehall Palace, where Catholic foes and Protestant friends can be similarly dangerous, as well as the politics opportunists, who’ll follow the blowing wind wherever it blows, more threatening than either.

The theft of Queen Catherine’s book proves to get in touch towards the terrible loss of life of Anne Askew, while his involvement with the Cotterstoke litigants threatens to bring Shardlake himself towards the stake.

The prior books in the bestselling Shardlake series are Dissolution, Dark Open fire, Sovereign, Revelation and Heartstone. Continue the gripping historical series with Tombland.