We are thrown into the next installment of this engrossing series with Shardlake attending a dinner party hosted by his old friend Roger. You can never judge a novel by its title, you have to read the book to understand the author’s motive behind their title choice. However, Sansom proved that he could make a thriller and still keep the characters that I have come to love and enjoy just as engaging and real to me as they have been in the previous novels. I thought it was going to be extremely dark and so apocalyptic that I would not enjoy it. When I saw that this book was dealing with elements of the book of Revelation, I was a bit nervous. This is the world that readers are plunged to in the next book in C.J. It is up to Shardlake and his intrepid assistant Barak, along with the former monk turned physician Guy Malton, to solve both cases before anyone else becomes the next victim. On top of that, Shardlake must defend a young man who has been placed in the Bedlam insane asylum for his radical beliefs. A friend of Matthew Shardlake is viciously murdered, leading to a horrific discovery of a killer is on the loose. It is her reformist values that make her a valuable asset for Archbishop Cranmer and his faction at court, and a target for others. The year is 1543 and King Henry VIII is looking for his sixth and final wife the recent widowed Catherine Parr has caught his eye.
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