![]() He practised for a while in Sussex as a lawyer for the disadvantaged, before quitting in order to work full-time as a writer. ![]() After working in a variety of jobs, he decided to retrain as a solicitor. He was born in 1952 and was educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. Ĭhristopher John "C.J." Sansom is an English writer of crime novels. 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. ![]() There, Shardlake also intends to investigate the mysterious past of Ellen Fettiplace, a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam. Meanwhile, Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr.Īsked 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. 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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