Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery Paperback - 2004
by Sansom, C. J
- Used
In what's being called a brilliant debut, Sansom presents a riveting historical novel in which issues of politics and faith collide when a gruesome murder is committed in a remote Benedictine monastery during the reign of Henry VIII.
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- Title Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery
- Author Sansom, C. J
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2004-04-27
- Features Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00JIAG_ns
- ISBN 9780142004302 / 0142004308
- Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 4.9 x 0.74 in (20.57 x 12.45 x 1.88 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 16th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Historical fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Exciting and elegantly written, Dissolution is an utterly compelling first novel and a riveting portrayal of Tudor England. The year is 1537, and the country is divided between those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the king and the newly established Church of England. When a royal commissioner is brutally murdered in a monastery on the south coast of England, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s feared vicar general, summons fellow reformer Matthew Shardlake to lead the inquiry. Shardlake and his young protégé uncover evidence of sexual misconduct, embezzlement, and treason, and when two other murders are revealed, they must move quickly to prevent the killer from striking again.