Book cover for Dissolution

Dissolution

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04 September 2008
480 pages
9780330503662
Imprint: Pan

Reviews

Dissolution by the late, great C. J. Sansom is our introduction to Matthew Shardlake: a disabled barrister with a keen legal mind, whose criminal investigations during the reign of Henry VIII bring Tudor England to vivid life . . . The turmoil of the time – religious and social – adds a layer of peril to this twisty murder mystery . . . Dissolution is at once a fiendish puzzle and a slice of gritty historical fiction, with a brilliantly unconventional detective at its heart
Remarkable . . . The sights, the voices, the very smell of this turbulent age seem to rise from the page
Extraordinarily impressive. The best crime novel I have read this year
Terrific. Historical fiction at its finest