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. Shardlake and Barak embark on their road journey south and experience all sorts of indignities and challenges along the way. Shardlake is resolute in his determination to uncover the mysteries of what happened to Ellen and to the Curteys children. He faces major obstacles from those with vested interests in concealing the truth. His detective instincts take him all the way to Portsmouth, where he becomes enmeshed in the mighty efforts to do battle against the enemy. He sees at first hand the English flotilla of warships, including the King's favourite vessel, the Mary Rose.

Aunque “Heartstone” me dejó con un sabor agridulce, con “Lamentation” el autor vuelve por sus fueros y nos ofrece una novela histórica de primerísimo nivel, consagrándose como uno de los mejores escritores de este tipo de novelas.

Recomendable? A ver, si ya estás metido en el quinto libro de esta saga es porque la disfrutas, así que en ese caso tienes que leerlo para seguir con ella, no es un calvario ni mucho menos, pero es cierto que comparado con los otros se te hará más tediosa la experiencia. I’ve debated a lot wether or not I should add this bit or not because I’ve seen it so many times being overused, but I think this might be one of the times where it’s required, so:

He had no choice. He has been assigned to represent Lincoln’s Inn, one of the Inns of Court, the one where he works. He had, after all, agreed to become more involved in the activities of the Inn, but this was certainly not what he had in mind. I was so irritated by Matthew and his bulldog attitude in helping people who neither asked or wanted his help that I wanted to slap him. That's how invested I am in this series. He was real enough to me that I thought I could have impact on his decisions. An abridged audiobook on CD, narrated by Anton Lesser, was released by Macmillan Digital Audio in 2010. [4] An unabridged audiobook, nearly 23 hours of narration performed by Steven Crossley, was released in 2011. Fighting their way through blizzards, haunted forests, and their own growing fears, the Daireds find a new battle awaiting them in the capital, for the Tekari and ghastradi are not the only forces converging on the heart of the kingdom. Another moves toward Arle, riding the winds from the south: an ambassador from the Silent King of Els.I am a big fan of C.J. Sansom's series featuring the lawyer Matthew Shardlake. Set during the reign of Henry VIII, the novels focus on various crimes, which the intrepid Shardlake investigates while dealing with the prevailing situation of London and England under Henry's increasingly erratic reign. Sansom is both a qualified lawyer and a PhD in English History, so he is able to insert credible elements from both aspects of his professional life into the narratives. A key feature of his writing is his talent for invoking the sights, sounds and smells of the era, making the reader feel like they are really there, in the stinking hovels, traversing the filthy streets, engaging with the drunken deadbeats, sleazy solicitors and leary louts of the heaving city of 1540s London. Queen Catherine Parr. How long will she remain in King Henry VIII’s good books? For that matter, how long will King Henry VIII remain – period? He is on his last legs, literally. Monsters, manners, and magic combine in this exciting final volume in the Heartstone Trilogy—an exhilarating blend of epic fantasy and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice—in which a fearless healer and her dragon-riding husband must stop a reawakened evil from destroying their world. So this was Anne Askew, who had left her husband in Lincolnshire to come and preach in London, and said the consecrated wafer was no more than a piece of bread, which would go mouldy like any other if left in a box."