Dissolution

Volume 1 in the Shardlake series.

Working for Thomas Cromwell, minister to King Henry VIII and one of the leaders of the Reformist movement, lawyer Matthew Shardlake is no stranger to the tensions between church and state in England in 1537. So when a commissioner, sent to shut down a Sussex monastery by order of the crown, is found brutally murdered, Shardlake is ordered by Cromwell to find the killer. Treated with suspicion by the monks of Scarnsea, Shardlake vows to find the perpetrator. But, in doing so, he’s forced to question everything and everyone he knows.