Shardlake Series

Heartstone

Summer, 1545. England is at war, and Matthew Shardlake is about to encounter the most politically dangerous case of his career.

Revelation

In 1543, while Tudor England is abuzz with King Henry VIII’s wooing of Lady Catherine Parr, Matthew Shardlake is working to defend a teenage boy, a religious fanatic being held in the infamous Bedlam hospital for the insane.

Sovereign

Shardlake and his loyal assistant, Jack Barak, find themselves embroiled in royal intrigue when a plot against King Henry VIII is uncovered in York.

Darkfire

Shardlake is asked to help a young girl accused of murder. She refuses to speak in her defense even when threatened with torture.

Dissolution

When a royal commissioner is brutally murdered in a monastery on the south coast of England, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s feared vicar general, summons fellow reformer Matthew Shardlake to lead the inquiry.