The Mary Rose - Henry VIII's warship, lost in 1545, recovered in 1982 and now on display in a dedicated museum in Portsmouth for everyone to visit all year round All purchases made help contribute to the preservation and conservation of the Mary Rose and the 19,000 objects that were recovered from the seabed. The legend himself, King Henry VIII, who is glittery and magnanimous to his people, but if you cross him, his true colors come out in full force. It has been three years since the terrible events at Scarnsea monastery, and lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake is living a quiet life in London - until a summons from Cromwell sees him embarking on another danger.

We all know what it’s like to anticipate something so much that we are literally shaking with excitement. Before I jumped into this series, I honestly had never heard of it, except when people mentioned these books in posts that I asked my followers what they are reading. Although understanding the system helps, it is the “mind-set” that is truly key and must be tackled first to be free.

Well, I wouldn’t go quite that far, but it was certainly a gripping story and while I’m not sure that it really needed to be over 600 pages long, I never found myself getting bored.

That is part of Shardlake’s role in York – to see that a noble prisoner is well-cared for and fit to be brought back to London for Henry’s inquisitors. Esto generó un gran descontento entre el pueblo y la nobleza del norte, que desembocó en diversos levantamientos armados y conspiraciones que se sucedieron a lo largo del siglo. Shardlake looks into many of the puzzling events that he encounters and resolves them throughout the novel without leaving everything to a dramatic conclusion at the end. However, I still think that each of the last two stories are about 100 pages too long and so there are few parts that drag. The story helped to open my eyes to some of the Tudor history, particularly that during the War of the Roses, with York at the centre of all.It was pretty obvious and a little disappointing, but Sansom was still clever enough with how he integrated it to keep me reading. Dissatisfied and discontent, Florent-Claude Labrouste begrudgingly works as an engineer for the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in a self-imposed dysfunctional relationship with a younger woman. Tamasin becomes a major character in this story, as do the women she works for who report to the Queen.