Awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger - the highest honor in British crime
writing From the bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and
Dominion comes a second riveting sixteenth-century thriller
featuring hunchback lawyer Matthew Shardlake In 1540, during the
reign of Henry VIII, Shardlake is asked to help a young girl
accused of murder. She refuses to speak in her defense even when
threatened with torture. But just when the case seems lost, Thomas
Cromwell, the king's feared vicar general, offers Shardlake two
more weeks to prove his client's innocence. In exchange, Shardlake
must find a lost cache of "Dark Fire," a legendary weapon of mass
destruction. What ensues is a page-turning adventure, filled with
period detail and history. "Atmospheric and engaging" (Margaret
George), this second book in Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series
delves again into the dark and superstitious world of Cromwell's
England introduced in Dissolution.
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