by C. J. Sansom · Pan Macmillan · tapa dura · ISBN 9780230744196
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«Lamentation» is the historical mystery novel by C. J. Sansom, published by Pan Macmillan in hardcover (642 pages, in English).
In 1546, with Henry VIII dying, Queen Catherine Parr commissions lawyer Matthew Shardlake to recover a confessional manuscript that could ruin her. The printer who kept it has been murdered and the book has disappeared; the investigation leads Shardlake from the printing houses of London to the intrigues of the Tudor court.
Sixth installment of the Matthew Shardlake series (The Shardlake series); original publication in 2014.
For fans of historical fiction with courtly intrigues, especially those interested in sixteenth-century England.
Christopher John Sansom was a British writer of historical crime novels, best known for his Matthew Shardlake series. He also wrote the spy novel Winter in Madrid and the alternative history novel Dominion. He won numerous book awards, including the 2005 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2013 and the Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2022. Shardlake, a television series based on Sansom's novel Dissolution, started streaming on Disney+ less than a week after his death.
