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Revelation (The Shardlake series, 4)

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Dr Matthew Shardlake, lawyer and long-time supporter of Reform, has been sent by Cromwell into this atmosphere of treachery and death. But Shardlake's investigation soon forces him to question everything he hears, and everything that he intrinsically believes . . . The main character throughout the series is the lawyer Matthew Shardlake. He works for prominent Privy Council men in Tudor England, including Thomas Cranmer and Thomas Cromwell. In Revelation, Shardlake works as a senior barrister, a very prestigious position, in Lincoln’s Inn. Many believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology." The way every killing seems to be planned to show us the killer is cleverer than we are. He presents them to us like trophies.’”

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Sansom explained his reasons for making his protagonist a barrister, in an interview with The Guardian. England, 1543: King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But this time the object of his affections is resisting. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. Meanwhile, the political landscape of Tudor England is slowly changing. In 1543, King Henry VIII has recently executed his fifth wife, the young Catherine Howard. He is already on the lookout for his sixth wife, and he has set his sights on Lady Catherine Parr. Catherine has no interest in the king. He is ill and obese, covered in ulcers from lying around all the time. However, Catherine’s own supporters want her to marry him. She is a Reformer, supporting the growing Protestant religion. Her supporters know that she can further the Protestant religion if she is in power.Shardlake takes on Elliard’s case. He promises his widow that he won’t stop until the killer is caught. Shardlake despises working closely with the Privy Council, though. He knows that anyone who is close to the king, in any capacity, is in constant danger because of the king’s mercurial, tyrannical temper. However, Shardlake works with Cranmer and the others because it is the only way to avenge Elliard. What is follow is an intriguing mystery, in which Shardlake will need to go to any length to find this killer, and after some twists and turns, followed by an excellent executed plot, Shardlake will eventually reveal this killer for the Book of Revelation in a most sublime fashion.

Revelation by C. J. Sansom | Waterstones

This is a grisly, gruesome tale, and if it were anybody but Matthew Shardlake, I probably wouldn’t follow where he goes. It is also a bit long, as this follows the trail of a serial killer who has a list of targets, making Shardlake’s work doubly difficult, as he and the others try to figure out who will be the next one chosen to represent the madman’s vision of revenge. One of lawyer Matthew Shardlake’s closest friends has been murdered and his body publicly displayed. Brought before Archbishop Cramer, Matthew learns this is not the first such killing. A serial killer is using versus in the Book of Revelations to carry out his killings. Not without critical acclaim as well, he’s also managed to garner his fair share of awards over the years too. Winning the 2005 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger for his novel ‘Dark Fire’, he has continued to attract the attention of the critics. His Shardlake series have also been recommended highly as well, winning the ‘Dagger in the Library’ award in 2007. Moving on, he continues to progress as a writer as he hones his craft always adapting and improving. With more books on the horizon he is sure to carry on this success as his audience expands further and further. This looks as if it will carry on from now on into the foreseeable future. DissolutionWorking as a lawyer for some time, he operated a legal practice from Surrey in the UK whereby he would help those less fortunate and at a disadvantage economically. This was after working a succession of jobs following university as he trained up to be a solicitor. With this inside look into the legal world, he managed to gain an insight he wouldn’t otherwise have had that was to help his work greatly later on. Holding strong political views as well, he’s donated to various causes over the years too, and has managed to build himself a strong body of work which shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. Writing Career Within this maelstrom, Matthew and Barak are confronted with an all new horror. Gruesome deaths the like of which they have never seen. The like of which the city has never seen. Orchestrated with the methodical cunning and pathological cruelty that we relate now to being the potential handiwork The face is of an old friend of Matthew Shardlake, and he promises the widow (whom he knew and cared for since their youth) to find the killer. This is the 1500s, Reformation England, when London had a population of about 60,000. We are in a mad and furious world, Matthew. Mundus furiosus. Each side railing against the other, preaching full of rage and hatred. The radicals foretelling the end of the world. To the conversion of some, and the confusion of many." Meanwhile, Shardlake, the Archbishop and the others must ensure nothing interferes with Henry’s pursuit of Catherine Parr. There is some interesting romantic intrigue here.

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