Awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger - the highest honor in British crime
writing
From the bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and Dominion comes a
second riveting sixteenth-century thriller featuring hunchback lawyer
Matthew Shardlake
In 1540, during the reign of Henry VIII, Shardlake is asked to help a
young girl accused of murder. She refuses to speak in her defense even
when threatened with torture. But just when the case seems lost, Thomas
Cromwell, the king's feared vicar general, offers Shardlake two more
weeks to prove his client's innocence. In exchange, Shardlake must find
a lost cache of Dark Fire, a legendary weapon of mass destruction. What
ensues is a page-turning adventure, filled with period detail and
history.
Atmospheric and engaging (Margaret George), this second book in Matthew
Shardlake Tudor Mystery series delves again into the dark and
superstitious world of Cromwell's England introduced in Dissolution.