Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church and the country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers ever seen. Under the order of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent through the country to investigate the monasteries. There can only be one outcome: the monasteries are to be dissolved. But on the Sussex coast, at the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control. Cromwell`s Commissioner Robin Singleton, has been found dead, his head severed from his body. His horrific murder is accompanied by equally sinister acts of sacrilege – a black cockerel sacrificed on the alter, and the disappearance of Scarnsea`s Great Relic. Dr Matthew Shardlake, lawyer and long-time supporter of Reform, has been sent by Cromwell into this atmosphere of treachery and death. But Shardlake`s investigation soon forces him to question everything he hears, and everything that he intrinsically believes...
Dissolution
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Author: C. J. Sansom
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330450799
Details:
Author: C. J. Sansom
Edition: Tenth anniversary ed
Features:
- Part history, part mystery. Henry VIII's workers are destroying the
- monasteries in England to bolster the king's orders to clean up religion
- in England, while setting the royal seal on the Church of England,
- where it remains to this day. Meanwhile, murders are taking place,
- and it's up to our king's man to solve them.
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 300
Release Date: 01-12-2007
Part Number: 9780330450799
Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.3 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780330450799
