Soon events will converge on board one of the king’s great warships gathered in Portsmouth harbour, waiting to sail out and confront the approaching French fleet. The mysteries surrounding the Hobbey family and the events that destroyed Ellen’s family nineteen years before, involve Shardlake in reunions both with an old friend and an old enemy close to the throne. Once in Portsmouth, Shardlake and Barak find themselves in a city preparing for war. Despite Shardlake vowing to take a back seat from Royal intrigues, the Tudor lawyer/detective is pulled into a case at the behest of Queen Catherine Parr. ‘Heartstone’, the penultimate book of the six, involves a puzzle which kept me guessing until the reveal. There, Shardlake also intends to investigate the mysterious past of Ellen Fettiplace, a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam. The Matthew Shardlake series by CJ Sansom continues to get better. Asked to investigate claims of `monstrous wrongs’ committed against his young ward, Hugh Curteys, by Sir Nicholas Hobbey, Shardlake and his assistant Barak journey to Portsmouth. England is at war, and Matthew Shardlake is about to encounter the most politically dangerous case of his career.
Sansom has said that he plans to write further Shardlake novels taking the lawyer into the reign of Elizabeth I. Sansom, set in the reign of Henry VIII in the 16th century. Meanwhile, Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. The Shardlake series is a series of historical mystery novels by C. Henry VIII’s invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel.
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