HEARTSTONE - SHARDLAKE SERIES BOOK 5

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B>Heartsone is C. J. Sansom's fifith spellbinding mystery in the Shardlake series./b>Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. The King has debased the currency to pay for the war, and England is in the grip of soaring inflation and economic crisis.Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. Asked to investigate claims of "monstrous wrongs" committed against a young ward of the court, which have already involved one mysterious death, Shardlake and his assistant Barak journey to Portsmouth.Once arrived, Shardlake and Barak find themselves in a city preparing to become a war zone; and Shardlake takes the opportunity to also investigate the mysterious past of Ellen Fettiplace, a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam. The emerging mysteries around the young ward, 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. Events will converge on board one of the King's great warships, primed for battle in Portsmouth harbour . . .b>Continue the gripping historical series with Lamentation and Tombland./b>


  • Auteur(s)

    C. j. Sansom

  • Éditeur

    Pan Books

  • Distributeur

    Olf

  • Date de parution

    16/07/2015

  • EAN

    9781447285878

  • Disponibilité

    Disponible

  • Nombre de pages

    768 Pages

  • Longueur

    19.8 cm

  • Largeur

    13 cm

  • Épaisseur

    4.7 cm

  • Poids

    535 g

  • Support principal

    Poche

C. J. Sansom

C.J. Sansom est né en Angleterre en 1952 et vit dans le Sussex. Passionné par la littérature et diplômé d'histoire, il quitte sa profession d'avocat en 2000 pour se consacrer pleinement à l'écriture. S'appuyant sur des recherches approfondies, il écrit Dissolution (Belfond, 2003), projet qui lui tient à coeur depuis de nombreuses années et pour lequel il fut finaliste du prix Ellis Peters du roman historique décerné par la prestigieuse Crime Writer's Association. Les larmes du diable, son deuxième roman, a paru en février 2005 aux éditions Belfond.

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