Sansom creates both a stunning portrait of Tudor England, and an unforgettable character in Matthew Shardlake. Dissolution is the first book in this bestselling phenomenon, where C. But Shardlake's investigation soon forces him to question everything he hears, and everything that he intrinsically believes. "Dr Matthew Shardlake, lawyer and long-time supporter of Reform, has been sent by Cromwell into this atmosphere of treachery and death. His horrific murder is accompanied by equally sinister acts of sacrilege – a black cockerel sacrificed on the altar, and the disappearance of Scarnsea's Great Relic." Cromwell's Commissioner Robin Singleton, has been found dead, his head severed from his body. But on the Sussex coast, at the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control. "There can only be one outcome: the monasteries are to be dissolved.
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