of violence and chases 10% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 33.3% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 20% How society works & physical descript. The first book in the Shardlake Series, Dissolution is a masterful historical mystery that immerses readers in the tumultuous world of Tudor England. The spine remains undamaged.Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book descript. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. His first novel, Dissolution was published in 2003. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Published byPenguin Publishing Group, 2003 ISBN 10: 0670032034ISBN 13: 9780670032037 Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A. C J Sansom practiced as a lawyer but gave up his practice to write full time. But Shardlake's investigation soon forces him to question everything he hears, and everything that he intrinsically believes. Dr Matthew Shardlake, lawyer and long-time supporter of Reform, has been sent by Cromwell to investigate. His horrific murder is accompanied by equally sinister acts of sacrilege - a black cockerel sacrificed on the altar, and the disappearance of Scarnsea's Great Relic. It is set in a time of great upheaval Henry VIII has declared himself head of the English church, and his ministers are looking at ways of dismantling the power of the priesthood. Cromwell's Commissioner Robin Singleton, has been found dead, his head severed from his body. Dissolution is the first book in the series, where we meet Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer and occasional fixer for Thomas Cromwell. But on the Sussex coast, at the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control. There can only be one outcome: the monasteries are to be dissolved. Dissolution is the first in the phenomenal Shardlake series by bestselling author, C. Under the order of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent through the country to investigate the monasteries.

Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church and the country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers ever seen. It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Dissolution is the first in the phenomenal Shardlake series by bestselling author, C.

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