![]() I will definitely be reading the rest of this series. Does the fact that I counted them give that away? But that’s a tiny thing to complain about. ![]() Who ever says “puce?” It really stood out to me and got on my nerves. My biggest complaint? The color puce is mentioned five times in the book. But once I found out, it all made sense and fit together. I never had any idea what was going on until the very end. He fervently believes in Reformation, but he can’t see that the road Cromwell is taking isn’t necessarily in the best interests of the country. ![]() He’s a jaded, acerbic, lonely, humpback lawyer who is still somewhat naive. I don’t know how Sansom did it, but his descriptions left me feeling that I had just visited a cold, snowy, monastery on the coast, where the monks live a little too well and know more than they are telling. What I do know is that every time I picked this book back up, I was immediately transported to sixteenth-century England. I can’t claim to know much about the period, so I don’t know how accurate it is. ![]() Shardlake needs to find the killer–and try to convince the abbot to close the monastery. As he brings Reformation to England, Cromwell is trying to subtly force monasteries to “voluntarily” dissolve, and the man he sent to the monastery in Scarnsea has been killed. ![]() Vicar General Thomas Cromwell is sending his man, Matthew Shardlake, to investigate a brutal murder. ![]()
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