![]() Together they begin to question suspects and unravel the tangle of leads that will, they hope, quickly point to the murderer. ![]() Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer devoted to reform and a personal friend, to find the murderer post haste, fearing further rebellion and the end to his regime.Īccompanying Shardlake is his clerk, Mark Poer. However, when one of Cromwell’s commissioners is murdered while on assignment at the Scarnsea monastery in southern England, he sends Dr. Cromwell is well under way in his plan to dissolve and destroy all vestiges of Catholicism in England. While reform seems to be taking hold, many loyal Catholics remain opposed to the strict new rules and regulations. This gripping mystery is set in Tudor England during the winter of 1557, just after a rebellion against the still-new Church of England has been put down by Henry VIII and his vicar general, Thomas Cromwell. ![]()
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