Sovereign

C. J. Sansom

About this book

The third installment of C. J. Sansom's acclaimed Matthew Shardlake mystery seriesC. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew Shardlake series, *Dissolution*, was selected by P. D. James in *The Wall Street Journal* as one of her top-five all-time favorite books. Now in *Sovereign*, Shardlake and his loyal assistant, Jack Barak, find themselves embroiled in royal intrigue when a plot against King Henry VIII is uncovered in York and a dangerous conspirator they've been charged with transporting to London is connected to the death of a local glazer.

Subjects

  • detective and mystery stories
  • fiction
  • fiction, historical, general
  • fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • great britain, fiction
  • historical fiction
  • history
  • lawyers
  • lawyers, fiction
  • legal stories
  • london (england), fiction
  • matthew shardlake (fictitious character)
  • murder