The Shardlake Series
In honor of novelist C.J. Sansom’s passing, I wanted to recommend his marvelous Matthew Shardlake historical crime thrillers, for anyone who isn’t already familiar. I definitely learned and remembered more about Thomas Cromwell-era England from Dissolution than I did from any textbooks (not that I’ve read any of those in a while, but still). It was all very visceral in a damp-stone-monastery, heavy cloaks, burning candles, teeth-being-pulled-in-the-Tower-of-London kind of way. Also his novels are just super fun, and the Matthew Shardlake character — a sort of proto-detective lawyer — is especially memorable.
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I adore these books and Shardlake as a character. There is now a 4-part Hulu show called Shardlake that I hope is good!
Any idea where I can get these books, I checked online and could only find $29 paperback and my library system/network doesn't have it?!?!
Try alibris.com
Awesome, thank you!
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