C. J. Sansom, Author . Viking $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-03203-7
Murders on the grounds of a monastery, 16th-century intrigue, an unconventional sleuth—readers might wonder if this is a knock-off Name of the Rose
set two centuries later, but Sansom's debut is a compelling historical mystery in its own...
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C. J. Sansom, Author . Viking $24.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-670-03372-0
Matthew Shardlake, the marvelous hunchbacked 16th-century attorney who first appeared in Sansom's Dissolution
, returns in this spellbinding Tudor-era tale of murder, conspiracy and betrayal. Shardlake normally handles property cases and the...
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C. J. Sansom, Author . Viking $25.95 (592p) ISBN 978-0-670-03831-2
Sansom's engrossing third historical featuring Matthew Shardlake (after 2005's Dark Fire
) finds the hunchbacked barrister at the vortex of strife-torn Tudor England in the rainy autumn of 1541. Northern Britain anxiously awaits the arrival...
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C. J. Sansom, Author . Viking $25.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-670-01848-2
The playing fields of Rookwood did little to prepare reluctant spy Harry Brett for the moral no man's land of post–Civil War Spain that awaits him in this cinematic historical thriller from British author Sansom (Sovereign
). But those...
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C. J. Sansom, Author . Viking $25.95 (549p) ISBN 978-0-670-02051-5
In March 1543, while London buzzes about Henry VIII's campaign to win newly widowed Lady Catherine Parr for his sixth wife, hunchbacked barrister Matthew Shardlake has grimmer matters on his mind in Sansom's gripping fourth Tudor...
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C.J. Sansom, Viking, $27.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-670-02239-7
Few contemporary authors are as adept as Sansom at blending a whodunit with a sweeping historical epic, as shown by his fifth mystery featuring English attorney Matthew Shardlake (after 2009's Revelation). In 1545, as a French fleet threatens...
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