Summary
From the bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and Dominion comes a second riveting sixteenth-century thriller featuring hunchback lawyer Matthew Shardlake
In 1540, during the reign of Henry VIII, Shardlake is asked to help a young girl accused of murder. She refuses to speak in her defense even when threatened with torture. But just when the case seems lost, Thomas Cromwell, the king's feared vicar general, offers Shardlake two more weeks to prove his client's innocence. In exchange, Shardlake must find a lost cache of "Dark Fire," a legendary weapon of mass destruction. What ensues is a page-turning adventure, filled with period detail and history.
"Atmospheric and engaging" (Margaret George), this second book in Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series delves again into the dark and superstitious world of Cromwell's England introduced in Dissolution.
Additional Information
| Series |
Sansom, C. J. Shardlake series. #1 - Dissolution #2 - Dark fire #3 - Sovereign #4 - Revelation #5 - Heartstone #6 - Lamentation #7 - Tombland |
| Subjects |
Cromwell, Thomas,
-- Earl of Essex,
-- 1485?-1540
-- Fiction.
Shardlake, Matthew (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. Attorney and client -- Fiction. Trials (Murder) -- Fiction. Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547 -- Fiction. Legal stories. Historical fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. |
| Publisher | New York, New York :2006 |
| Language |
English |
| Notes |
Includes an excerpt from the author's Sovereign. |
| Description |
502, 10 pages : map ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (page 502). |
| ISBN | 9780143036432 0143036432 |
| Other | Classic View |