Dark Fire - Shardlake Volume 2

b>Winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, Dark Fire is the second thrilling historical crime novel in the Shardlake series by C. J. Sansom./b>It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth century. Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is busy trying to maintain his legal practice and keep a low profile. But his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of brutally murdering her young cousin, brings him once again into contact with the king's chief minister - and a new assignment . . .The secret of Greek Fire, the legendary substance with which the Byzantines destroyed the Arab navies, has been lost for centuries. Now an official of the Court of Augmentations has discovered the formula in the library of a dissolved London monastery. When Shardlake is sent to recover it, he finds the official and his alchemist brother horribly murdered - the formula has disappeared.Now Shardlake must follow the trail of Greek Fire across Tudor London, while trying at the same time to prove his young client's innocence. But very soon he discovers nothing is as it seems . . .b>Continue this gripping historical series with Sovereign, Revelation, Heartstone, Lamentation and Tombland./b>

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Historical crime fiction is sometimes little more than a modern adventure in fancy dress. Not so the novels of C. J. Sansom, whose magnificent books set in the reign of Henry VIII bring to life the sounds and smells of Tudor England . . . Dark Fire is a creation of real brilliance. Sunday Times

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• Authors: C J Sansom, C. J. Sansom, Christopher J. Sansom
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.07.2015
• EAN: 9781447285847
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-8584-7
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Pan Books; Matthew Shardlake; The Shardlake series; The Shardlake series; Matthew Shardlake
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; England, Historical fiction, Central London, c 1500 to c 1600, Relating to Christian people and groups, Thrillers / Historical, Historical / General, 1485–1603 (Tudor period), c 1540 to c 1549