Revelation (The Shardlake series, 4)

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But I sat transfixed by what was, for me, a double horror. The first was the great gaping wound in the man’s throat, red against the dead-white skin and stretching almost from ear to ear. The second was the face.” We are in a mad and furious world, Matthew. Mundus furiosus. Each side railing against the other, preaching full of rage and hatred. The radicals foretelling the end of the world. To the conversion of some, and the confusion of many."

Revelation by C. J. Sansom: 9780143116240

He has also written Winter in Madrid, a thriller set in Spain in 1940 in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Publishing his first book in 2003 titled ‘Dissolution’, he leaped onto the literary scene with the first in his ‘Matthew Shardlake’ series of novels. Set within the historical mystery genre, he started to gain attention thanks to his keen eye for detail and accuracy. With that he started to gain more prominence within his field as his career began to take off. 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 . . . It is the end of winter in 1543 and Henry is wooing Catherine Parr with the intention of making her his sixth wife. This is not popular with Archbishop Cramer as Parr is known to have sympathies to the reformist agenda. Christopher John Sansom (born 1952) is a British writer of historical crime novels, best known for his Matthew Shardlake series. He was born in Edinburgh and attended George Watson's College in that city, but left the school with no qualifications. Sansom has written about the bullying he suffered there. [1] Subsequently he was educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. [2] After working in a variety of jobs, he decided to retrain as a solicitor. He practised in Sussex as a lawyer for the disadvantaged, before leaving the legal profession to become a full-time writer. He lives in Sussex. [2] Work [ edit ]He does – ghastly, macabre, horrifying trophies. I’m not generally a fan of serial killer stories, but for some reason, I can read these – perhaps because they take place so long ago, I can escape. By this point in the Shardlake Series we have three books under our belt, and a lot has happened! It's Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII has his eye on yet another wife(the sixth, and as we know, the last). London (and England as a whole) is in as much religious turmoil as ever. As C.J. Sansom says in his Historical Note at the end of the book,

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Revelation (2008), a historical mystery novel by Christopher John Sansom, is the fourth book in the Matthew Shardlake series. Set in England in 1543, it follows a lawyer and his assistant as they hunt for whoever murdered a fellow lawyer. Shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award, critics praise it for its complex, layered plot and historical accuracy. Sansom writes historical novels with crime and mystery elements, and he is best known for the Matthew Shardlake novels. Before writing full-time, Sansom practiced as a solicitor in England. Mechler, Anita (10 February 2022). "CJ Sansom Wins Diamond Dagger Award". Library Journal . Retrieved 19 January 2023. Tombland by CJ Sansom review – royals and revolting peasants". the Guardian. 28 October 2018 . Retrieved 11 November 2022.He has created a hugely detailed and wonderfully plausible picture of life in 16th Century London as religious schisms threaten to tear the country apart but he sweetens the pot in this tale of a Tudor serial killer by having his characters talking in modern English. A very superior entertainment., Mail on Sunday Nos sumergimos en la antigua abadía de Westminster, entre la ruina y la reconversión. En una sociedad en la que la lucha entre los puritanos y los católicos alumbrarán un "producto" nuevo y a la Then there is the mystery, which I know is supposed to be the main point. Though it is expertly done, this is only part of the attraction of the novel for me. The cases that Matthew is wrapped up in for this installment once again bring him closer to court than he is comfortable with, and the reader is given a fun glimpse of the Seymour brothers as Henry VIII nears his end and targets his final wife, Catherine Parr. Book Review: “The Last Days of Henry VIII: Conspiracies, Treason, and Heresy at the Court of the Dying Tyrant” by RobertHutchinson La trama nos sitúa de nuevo bajo el POV de Matthew Shardlake, abogado con escrúpulos del colegio de Lincoln en el convulso Londres del siglo XVI. Ha pasado algo más de un año desde su última aventuras, gracias a las cuales Matthew se ganó el favor de gente importante y un buen puesto de trabajo. Pero una vez más la tranquilidad será efímera en su modo de vida, un gran amigo suyo resulta asesinado de una forma ritual bastante desagradable, y por lo visto no es el único asesinato de ese estilo. La política/religión del momento volverán a estar en el punto de mira de la trama principal y debido al sentido de justicia de nuestro protagonista, se verá inmerso de nuevo en una aventura que podría costarle la vida tanto a él como a sus seres más cercanos.

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What is follow is an intriguing mystery, in which Shardlake will need to go to any length to find this killer, and after some twists and turns, followed by an excellent executed plot, Shardlake will eventually reveal this killer for the Book of Revelation in a most sublime fashion. All must be kept hidden from the King and the public, as it seems possible that the King’s latest fancy may be a target – Catherine Parr, a recent widow.I’m sure many Anglicans and Episcopalians are not aware he was the founder of their church. Catholics are still forbidden, but now Cromwell’s spreading Bibles everywhere is frowned upon, and people are being burned and tortured if they’re in the wrong camp. Revelation takes place in 1543, shortly after Thomas Cromwell was beheaded, and shortly before Catherine Parr married Henry VIII. This was a dangerous time: political enemies were denounced, sometimes at the cost of their heads. Good and evil shifted almost daily, ‘Each knowing, of course, that their own side is entirely in the right’ (p. 97). Protestants and Papists, hot-gospellers and Laodicean were each at risk when they fell on the wrong side of this changing landscape. A fiery death may have been pleasing to some – certainly spectators – but sometimes also those joining their God.