We last met Serjeant of the Law Matthew Shardlake in the summer of 1545, just after the sinking of the Mary Rose in Southampton, barely surviving the ordeal, and things don’t look overly cheerful for him when the story resumes a year later in 1546 and we find Matthew at the burning of Anne Askew, in a London that seems claustrophobic and suspicious, with barely contained religious violence everywhere. Some early reviews have already been published, such as Stephanie Merritt’s review for The Observer, or Alfred Hickling’s perceptive piece for The Guardian, but the complexity of the book (and the series as a whole) is such that a closer look may be warranted. Just to cut straight to the point: it was well worth waiting, and if anything, Lamentationmay be the strongest book in the series yet. Sansom’s Matthew Shardlake series, given the fact that Book 6 in the series, Lamentation, has just been published after a wait of 4 years. It seems quite topical to write about C.J.
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