Dark fire

About this book

It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth cantury. Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is busy trying to maintain his legal practice and keep a low profile. But his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of brutally murdering her young cousin, brings him once again into contact with the king's chief minister - and a new assignment ...

1. Dissolution 2003
2. Dark Fire 2004 This book
3. Sovereign 2006
4. Revelation 2008

Subjects

• attorney and client
• fiction
• fiction, historical, general
• fiction, legal
• fiction, mystery & detective, general
• fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
• great britain, fiction
• history
• lawyers
• lawyers, fiction
• london (england), fiction
• matthew shardlake (fictitious character)
• trials (murder)