Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery, Book 1, (Paperback)

from Sovranty

Surprises at every turn. Just when you think you have the killer figure out, you find out you are wrong...or are you? Set in Tudor England, this historical fiction allows the reader a glimpse of the English Reformation. True character is in the eye of the beholder, and these characters afford a d...

from wandering_star

This is a good page-turner - set around the time of the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII, although the title also refers to the dissolute living which was going on at some of them. An up-and-coming lawyer is sent down from London to a monastery on Romney Marsh, with two tasks - to per...

from Donna828

The dissolution of Roman Catholic monasteries was an integral part of reformation in 16th century England. One of the commissioners under Thomas Cromwell is murdered while carrying out the investigation of a remote monastery in southern England. Matthew Shardlake, put on the case by Cromwell, has...

from baswood

Dissolution is a true amalgamation of two genres; the crime/mystery novel with the historical novel. Certainly not a new idea; crime/mystery novels have long been searching for a setting that will liven up or add interest to plot driven novels that are running out of new plots. Ellis Peters Cadfa...

from eleanor_eader

Dissolution marks the beginning of Sansom's historical crime fiction series set during the reign of Henry VIII, focusing on Cromwell's reformation of the Catholic monasteries in England. For something that I picked up as a guilty-pleasure fiction read, I certainly learned a great deal about this ...