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| Original Title: | Lamentation |
| ISBN: | 0230744192 (ISBN13: 9780230744196) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Matthew Shardlake #6 |
| Setting: | London, England,1546(United Kingdom) |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Mystery & Thriller (2015), CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger Nominee for Shortlist (2015) |
C.J. Sansom
Hardcover | Pages: 642 pages Rating: 4.4 | 12150 Users | 1073 Reviews
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| Title | : | Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake #6) |
| Author | : | C.J. Sansom |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 642 pages |
| Published | : | October 23rd 2014 by Mantle |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Historical Mystery |
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As Henry VIII lies on his deathbed, an incendiary manuscript threatens to tear his court apart in the new installment of C.J. Sansom's Shardlake series.Autumn, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors prepare for a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government. The Catholics decide to focus their attack on Henry's sixth wife, the Protestant Queen Catherine Parr. As Catherine begins to lose the King's favour, she turns to the shrewd, hunchbacked lawyer, Matthew Shardlake, to contain a potentially fatal secret.
The Queen has written a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner, a memoir so radical that if it came to the King's attention, it could bring her and her courtly sympathizers to ruination. The London printer into whose hands she entrusted the manuscript has been murdered, the book nowhere to be found.
Shardlake's investigations take him down a trail that begins among printshops in the filthy backstreets of London, but leads him once more to the labyrinthine world of court politics, where Protestant friends can be as dangerous as Catholic enemies, and those who will support either side to further their ambition are the most dangerous of all.
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Ratings: 4.4 From 12150 Users | 1073 ReviewsDiscuss Of Books Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake #6)
I dont know why, but this Matthew Shardlake series reminds me of the old NBC Mystery Movie series of rotating detective shows that aired in the 1970s. Yeah, Im dating myself. Matthew Shardlake, the star of this series, is a hunchback lawyer during the reign of Henry VIII. I dont suppose there were many with his condition in that occupation back in those days. Its that out-of-placeness that reminds me of the Columbo, MacMillian & Wife, and McCloud detectives of the Mystery Movies. McCloud forHave been saving this one up for a while now as its the latest in the series & will leave me upto date & waiting (hopefully) for a continuation in the series.Such a smooth narrator, as we get straight back into the saddle & quickly we become reacquainted with the world of Master Serjeant Shardlake (a lawyer) in Tudor England in the era of the Great reformation. You can smell the streets with the authenticity of the writing & before you know it you are like 200 pages into the book
Without doubt, the Shardlake series is my favourite historical mystery series ever. Having re-read the earlier books, I started the latest with anticipation. C J Sansom has created a word so realistic that, as soon as you begin reading, you are back in that era it is all waiting for you, from the Inns of Court, to Shardlakes house with his continuing problems of finding a steward he is comfortable with to the malevolent presence of a King, so unpredictable and feared that most people tend to
Review to come. This was a long whopper of a book. All of the books in this series are hefty, but this one somehow took me longer to get through. Sudden and surprising events at the very end, concerning favorite characters, have left some cliffhangers for the next book. Glad I already have it on order!
With his latest Shardlake mystery, C.J. Sansom once again paints a vivid portrait of Henry VIIIs England. This novel is set in the last year of Henrys life during one of the many fluctuations of what is the proper way to worship God. Henry is drifting towards the conventional understanding the Eucharist and as a result there is a hunt on for heretics.In the opening sequence of the novel, Shardlake is required by his superiors at Lincoln Inn to attend the burning of 4 people convicted of heresy,
Brilliant mystery as hunchback lawyer Shardlake attempts to retrieve an ill conceived booklet written by Catherine Parr which, if discovered, could lead to her execution. A high body count follows as Matthew and sidekick Barak battle many levels of Court intrigue, religious zealots, assassins and the most power hungry men in the kingdom to protect the Queen. Wonderful narrative style, complicated but clever plot lines and a most interesting period of English history - breathtaking read.
What a book, a great history read, great story and a great writer. The best in the Shardlake series for me. Kept me on the edge of my chair from beginning to end. Great suspense and interesting imaginable insights into court life of King Henry VIII, the politics and the religious turmoil, his wife Queen Catherine Parr and the continued strenuous adventures of Matthew Shardlake, hunchback lawyer. Now I'm sorry I have to wait a long time for the next book in the series.... Matthew and Elizabeth...
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