Lamentation (Matthew Shardlake Series #6)

"A triumph both as detective fiction and as a novel ... superior to Hilary Mantel."—The Independent

Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councilors are engaged in a power struggle; whoever wins will control the government. The Catholic party focuses its attack on Henry's sixth wife—and Matthew Shardlake's old mentor—Queen Catherine Parr.

The Queen has authored a confessional book, Lamentation of a Sinner,…