Dissolution
04 September 2008
Imprint: Pan
Synopsis
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'A fiendish puzzle and a slice of gritty historical fiction, with a brilliantly unconventional detective at its heart' – Richard Osman, bestselling author of We Solve Murders
Dissolution is the first novel in C. J. Sansom’s phenomenally bestselling Shardlake series. After one of Cromwell's commissioners is brutally murdered, Matthew Shardlake is drawn into an investigation that...
Details
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 heartRichard Osman, bestselling author of We Solve Murders, WSJ
Remarkable . . . The sights, the voices, the very smell of this turbulent age seem to rise from the pageP. D. James, author of the Inspector Adam Dalgliesh series
Extraordinarily impressive. The best crime novel I have read this yearColin Dexter, author of the Inspector Morse series
Terrific. Historical fiction at its finestPeter Robinson, author of the Inspector Alan Banks series