La Piedra del Corazon

from jmoncton

This is the 5th book in the mystery series, featuring Matthew Shardlake, a Lincoln's Inn lawyer during the reign of Henry VIII. The more I read these books, the more I enjoy them. In this story, Matthew is helping one of Queen Catherine's women by investigating the death of her son, who was tryin...

from nordie

Shardlake has two main causes to follow in this book: the current Queen Catherine Parr (latest wife of Henry VIII) has asked him to investigate that the wardship of two orphans, one of whom has subsequently died. On his way down to the Solent, he also decides to investigate the case of one now ag...

from Finxy

Review from Badelynge Heartstone is the fifth of C.J. Sansom's Tudor mysteries featuring the hunchback lawyer Shardlake. In previous books he'd been tasked with dangerous mysteries with political ramifications by two of the most powerful men in Tudor England - the doomed Thomas Cromwell and Thoma...

from pgchuis

This was very good as ever, and the wardship strand was clever - I thought I had worked it out at one point, but I hadn't. There was a bit too much detail of all the ships at Portsmouth and endless trekking around Hampshire for me to give it 5 stars, but this is still the best series I have read ...

from PDCRead

The year in 1545, and England is poised at the brink of war with France, and a huge French fleet is massing ready to sail across the channel. Shardlake is summoned to Queen Catherine Parr, where she asks him to take on a case by a servant of hers. It is intriguing, and he readily accepts. It is c...