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Dissolution Hardback - 2003
by Sansom, C. J
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It is the winter of 1537 and England is divided into those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the King and the newly established Church of England. Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's feared vicar-general, crusades against the old Church with savage new laws, rigged trials, and a vast network of informers. Queen Anne Boleyn has been beheaded and monasteries are being dissolved-their treasures pillaged and their lands eyed greedily by courtiers and country gentry. But having put down one people's rebellion, Cromwell fears another might topple the realm. So, when one of his commissioners is murdered in the monastery at Scarnsea on the south coast of England, he enlists his fellow reformer, Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer renowned as "the sharpest hunchback in the courts of England," to head the inquiry.When Shardlake and his young clerk and protégé, Mark Poer, arrive at Scarnsea, the two are greeted with thinly veiled hostility and suspicion as their investigation quickly uncovers evidence of sexual misconduct, embezzlement, and treason. While the community of brothers is revealed to be far less pious than they would seem, Shardlake himself is shocked to discover truths about Cromwell that undermine his own beliefs and threaten to cost him his faith, and even his life. But when a novice is poisoned and a year-old corpse dredged up from a nearby pond, Shardlake must act quickly to prevent the killer from murdering againExciting and elegant, Dissolution is a riveting historical novel and a brilliant debut by a writer who is sure to attract fans of Iain Pears, Ellis Peters, and Umberto Eco.
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- Title Dissolution
- Author Sansom, C. J
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Publication date 2003-04-28
- Bookseller's Inventory # 709554-6
- ISBN 9780670032037 / 0670032034
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.34 x 1.3 in (23.67 x 16.10 x 3.30 cm)
- Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Historical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003050152
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 1
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