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    <![CDATA[Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. Matthew Shardlake, meanwhile, is working on the case of a teenage boy who has been placed in the Bedlam insane asylum, before his terrifying religious mania leads to him being burned as a heretic. When an old friend is horrifically murdered Shardlake vows to bring the killer to justice. His search leads him to Cranmer and Catherine Parr - and to the dark prophecies of the &quot;Book of Revelation&quot;. As London's Bishop Bonner prepares a purge of Protestants Shardlake, together with his assistant, Jack Barak, and his friend, Guy Malton, investigate a series of horrific murders which are already bringing frenzied talk of witchcraft and demonic possession - for what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer...?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[C.J.Sansom fourth Tudor novel brings us forward to Spring 1543. King Henry VIII has now recovered from his embarrassment of fifth wife Catherine Howard's adultery; who subsequently lost her head twice; once too Thomas Culpeper and the second was a fatal blow of an axe. Henry's obesity was now way ou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75877059">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The 4th book in the Matthew Shardlake series is a big improvement on the 3rd.  Matthew Shardlake, now a Serjeant of the Court in London is a successful lawyer and investigator (as well as a 'hunchback' or 'crookback'.)  Shardlake is again drawn into the intrigue of the court, along with his faithful...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63376007">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing! My favorite so far in an a stellar series; I stayed up too late finishing it, so I'm not feeling terribly articulate, but I would definitely recommend this series (this is the fourth &quot;Matthew Shardlake&quot; mystery) to any fan of well-researched historical mysteries. <br/><br/>This ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50268090">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://finxy.blogspot.com/2009/06/shardlake.html">From my blog review</a><br/>I've just finished reading the last of the first four Shardlake books by C.J.Sansom. I discovered them earlier on in the year and have been working steadily through them until now. They follow the life of a hunchbacked lawyer in the sixteenth century. The first book begins s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49816216">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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