Dissolution by Sansom, C. J - 2007

US: Pan, 2007. First Edition. Paperback. Good. From the bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and Dominion comes the exci ting and elegantly written first novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Myste ry series Dissolution is an utterly riveting portrayal of Tudor England. Th e year is 1537, and the country is divided between those faithful to the Ca tholic Church and those loyal to the king and the newly established Church of England. When a royal commissioner is brutally murdered in a monastery o n the south coast of England, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's feared vicar ge neral, summons fellow reformer Matthew Shardlake to lead the inquiry. Shard lake and his young protégé uncover evidence of sexual misconduct, embezzlem ent, and treason, and when two other murders are revealed, they must move q uickly to prevent the killer from striking again. A "remarkable debut" (P. D. James), Dissolution introduces a thrilling historical series that is not to be missed by fans of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.