The release date for the English version of 'Lamentation' by
C.J. Sansom is Feb 2015. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
An explosive document threatens to destroy Henry VIII's court as he lies dying.
1546 summer. King Henry VIII is passing away painfully and slowly. His Protestant and Catholic councilors are fighting it out in a critical battle that will determine who runs the government in the end. Queen Catherine Parr, Henry's sixth wife and former tutor of Matthew Shardlake, is the target of the Catholic party's attacks as heretics are persecuted throughout London and extreme Protestants are burned at the stake.
Still scarred by his near-death experience the previous year, Shardlake acts when the desperate and harried Queen calls him to Whitehall Palace to assist her in retrieving a hazardous document. The Queen has written a confessional book called Lamentation of a Sinner, which is so strongly Protestant that it may send her and her supporters to their knees if the King happened to read it. The secret book was kept in the Queen's private chamber, locked inside a chest, but it has mysteriously disappeared. The only page that has been found is the one that a murdered London printer was holding.
Through his inquiries, Shardlake follows a trail that starts in London's backstreet print shops and ends with him and his reliable helper Jack Barak exploring the murky and complex world of court politics—a world he vowed never to revisit. Protestant allies can be just as dangerous as Catholic opponents in this furnace of power and ambition, and the most dangerous people are often those who have shifting allegiances.
©2015 Hachette Audio (P)2015 C.J. Sansom