by C.J. Sansom · Sperling & Kupfer · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788873390152
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«L'enigma del gallo nero» is the historical mystery novel by C.J. Sansom, published by Sperling & Kupfer in paperback (432 pages, in Italian).
In the England of Henry VIII, a royal emissary is found decapitated in the Benedictine abbey of Scarnsea, and on the altar someone has left a black rooster with its throat cut. Matthew Shardlake, a reformist lawyer, investigates the crime and uncovers the secrets the monks hide.
First novel by C.J. Sansom featuring Matthew Shardlake; published in 2004 in the Super tascabili Sperling collection.
Will appeal to fans of historical thrillers and mystery in Tudor England: crimes, monastic secrets, and religious tension.
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.
