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Dark Fire
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Read this book in 2011, and its the 2nd volume of the wonderful "Matthew Shardlake" series.
This tale is set in the year AD 1540, three years after Shardlake's mission at Scarnsea.
Out of favour with Thomas Cromwell and thus keeping a low profile, he will be defending a young woman, Elizabeth Wentworth, who's prosecuted for murder of her cousin.
This Elizabeth Wentworth refuses to plea whether she's guilty or not guilty, and so making this case for Shardlake impossible to defend, with the result that she will crushed under weights until she pleads or dies.
At the last moment this execution is granted a reprieve by Thomas Cromwell, because he needs Shardlake to investigate a case for him, especially after his downfall from grace after his ill-fated marriage he arranged for King Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves.
This case will involve Greek Fire, that has turned up in the hands of two brothers and Cromwell wants the possession of it, to restore some of his former glory.
What is to follow is an amazing mystery, in which Shardlake will have to go to any length to try to locate this Greek Fire and get it in the possession of Thomas Cromwell, but after an excellent executed tale with much treason and conspiracies that will bring much disaster and death, it will end with a lot of suspense and burning desires.
Highly recommended, for this is another terrific addition to this great series, and that's why I like to call this episode: "A Magnificent Sequel"!
This tale is set in the year AD 1540, three years after Shardlake's mission at Scarnsea.
Out of favour with Thomas Cromwell and thus keeping a low profile, he will be defending a young woman, Elizabeth Wentworth, who's prosecuted for murder of her cousin.
This Elizabeth Wentworth refuses to plea whether she's guilty or not guilty, and so making this case for Shardlake impossible to defend, with the result that she will crushed under weights until she pleads or dies.
At the last moment this execution is granted a reprieve by Thomas Cromwell, because he needs Shardlake to investigate a case for him, especially after his downfall from grace after his ill-fated marriage he arranged for King Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves.
This case will involve Greek Fire, that has turned up in the hands of two brothers and Cromwell wants the possession of it, to restore some of his former glory.
What is to follow is an amazing mystery, in which Shardlake will have to go to any length to try to locate this Greek Fire and get it in the possession of Thomas Cromwell, but after an excellent executed tale with much treason and conspiracies that will bring much disaster and death, it will end with a lot of suspense and burning desires.
Highly recommended, for this is another terrific addition to this great series, and that's why I like to call this episode: "A Magnificent Sequel"!
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