Dark fire

Matthew Shardlake #2

by

579 pages

English language

Published Sept. 12, 2007 by Macmillan.

ISBN:
9781405005449
OCLC Number:
809667521

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3 stars (1 review)

It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth cantury. 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 ...

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reviewed Dark fire by C. J. Sansom

Shardlake just isn't going to happen

3 stars

Matthew Shardlake, a barrister during Henry VIII's reign, keeps being charged with solving mysteries. In theory, I should adore Sansom’s Matthew Shardlake series, but I just don’t. The history is impeccable as is the ability of Sansom to evoke the Tudor period but the mysteries don't interest me, their solutions are unsatisfying, and the characters seem flat. Matthew should fascinate me, yet I remain indifferent. In conclusion, this series is not for me and I’ll stop trying to make Shardlake happen.

Subjects

  • Matthew Shardlake (Fictitious character)
  • Fiction
  • Lawyers
  • History

Places

  • England
  • Great Britain
  • London