Dissolution (The Shardlake series, 1)

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And I am interested in other periods, having just finished a novel set around the Spanish Civil War.

I felt that the portrayal of the Catholic Church and of the reformist was balanced and that the conclusion rings true event Todays: Whenever people with power fight the only true losers are the common people. Hunchbacks were considered unlucky then, so people tend to give Shardlake a wide berth, which makes it easy to find privacy in the pubs and inns along their way. Was Matthew Shardlake a truly naïve character, or was he simply in a deep state of denial with regard to Thomas Cromwell’s style of governing? Se trata de esas obras que me cuesta puntuar y que solo recomendaría para aquellos lectores de este género.Follow Shardlake into the dark heart of Tudor England with the bestselling Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation, Heartstone, Lamentation and Tombland. Dissolution, the first book in the Matthew Shardlake series, was a fast and cosy whodunit which helped to scratch that itch in the meantime. As the story progresses, Shardlake loses some of his innocent fervor for reform as he sees the full spectrum of consequences of the confiscations of church land and property. Clásica novela histórica de misterio que transcurre en la Inglaterra de Enrique VIII, con un protagonista que actúa como comisionado a las órdenes del vicario general del reino, Sir Thomas Cromwell, que persigue la disolución de los monasterios durante la escisión de la Iglesia Anglicana de la Iglesia Católica. Beyond that, I don’t know, because I find that mostly my major characters are formed subconsciously, and often take on a life of their own on the page and move away from what was planned—like the abbot, mentioned above.

Independent on Sunday Sansom has a greater talent for animating period details than most of his contemporaries, his rendering of the Tudor winter in the first of the Shardlake series makes you reach for thick fleece blankets. If so, was it authentic or do you think Alice manufactured a faux physical attraction to manipulate Shardlake? Matthew Shardlake, a disfigured detective finds himself embroiled in an investigation that uncovers many enemies, motives, and suspects, as the inquiry takes him right back to the beheading of Ann Boleyn. Not only is the king the head of the church, but he has been waging battles against those not to happy to be split from the Church of Rome. The beginning was fantastic, establishing the characters, power dynamics and setting, and the initial introduction to our mystery.The atmosphere of the country at that point in time, the uncertainty, the turmoil, with the shape of religion changing alongside the changing scope of power, is something that the author I felt has captured really well, as he does the details of everyday life in Tudor England. En este caso: hombre maduro y contrahecho, inteligente, tímido y práctico, y joven atractivo, pasional e impulsivo.