![]() ![]() ![]() A collection of her controversial private religious writings have been stolen and she gives Shardlake the secret task of recovering them before they are published or the King learns of their existence. But, before Shardlake can get too involved with the case, he is summoned to meet Queen Catherine Parr. Whilst there, he meets a rather friendly lawyer from Gray’s Inn called Philip Coleswyn.Ī while later, Shardlake learns that Coleswyn is on the opposite side of a rather acrimonious legal case between two siblings feuding over their mother’s will. Although he dislikes the macabre spectacle, he is compelled to attend by his boss at Lincoln’s Inn. The novel begins with the lawyer Matthew Shardlake attending a burning of heretics in London. “Lamentation” is a historical detective novel set in Tudor England during the year 1546. This is the 2015 Pan Books (UK) paperback edition of “Lamentation” (2014) that I read. ![]()
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