Awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger - the highest honor in British crime
writing
The third Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C. J. Sansom, the
bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and Dominion
C. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical
praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew
Shardlake series, Dissolution, was selected by P. D. James in The
Wall Street Journal as one of her top five all-time favorite books. Now
in Sovereign, Shardlake faces the most terrifying threat in the age of
Tudor England: imprisonment int he Tower of London.
Shardlake and his loyal assistant, Jack Barak, find themselves embroiled
in royal intrigue when a plot against King Henry VIII is uncovered in
York and a dangerous conspirator they've been charged with transporting
to London is connected to the death of a local glazer.