Revelation

London: Pan Books. Very Good+. 2009. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. 130 X 40 X 197 millimeters . Light shelf and edge wear, slight foxing to edges of reading block. ; First printing of Pan paperback edition with full number line, 2009. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover design uncredited with photo courtesy of Getty Images. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; The Shardlake Series; Vol. 4; Maps; 640 pages; Spring, 1543. Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is working on the case of a teenage boy who has been placed in the Bedlam insane asylum, whose terrifying religious mania Mathew fears may lead him to being burned as a heretic. When an old friend is horrifically murdered Shardlake vows to bring the killer to justice. His search leads him to Cranmer and Catherine Parr and to the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation. As London's Bishop Bonner prepares a purge of Protestants Shardlake, together with his assistant, Jack Barak, and his friend, Guy Malton, investigate a series of horrific murders which are already bringing frenzied talk of witchcraft and demonic possession - for what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer...? .