If you've read this author's Winter in Madrid (bwl 38) you might enjoy his Tudor crime novels featuring Matthew Shardlake, a hunchback reformist lawyer and his loyal assistant, Mark. In this first book - there are two others - he is sent by Thomas Cromwell to investigate sacrilege and a gruesome murder in a monastery on the Sussex coast. Fast paced, atmospheric, full of satisfying historical detail, I guessed the who but not the why.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 42 October 2007 ) |
