Revelation

Product Details

Author : C.J. Sansom
Format : Audiobook
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 9780230531932
Product Group : Book
Publication Date : 2008-04-04
Publisher : Macmillan Digital Audio

ASIN : 0230531938

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Editorial Reviews

Daily Express

'Gripping, colourful and beautifully brought to life by Anton Lesser.'

The Ten Best Audio Books, Independent

'Sansom's novels make for compulsive listening. At over seven hours, this is the ideal companion for a long haul flight.'

Observer

'This tense mystery is remarkable for its vivid recreation not only of a cruel and dangerous time...'

Choice

'Utterly gripping.'

Synopsis

In spring, 1543 King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But this time the object of his affections is resisting. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. Matthew Shardlake, meanwhile, is working on the case of a teenage boy, a religious maniac who has been placed by the King's council in the Bedlam hospital for the insane. Should he be released as his parents want, when his terrifying actions could lead to him being burned as a heretic? When an old friend is horrifically murdered Shardlake promises his widow, for whom he has long had complicated feelings, to bring the killer to justice. His search leads him to connections not only with the boy in Bedlam but with Cranmer and Catherine Parr and with the dark prophecies of the "Book of Revelation".As London's Bishop Bonner prepares a purge of Protestants Shardlake, together with his assistant, Jack Barak, and his friend, Guy Malton, follow the trail of a series of horrific murders that shake them to the core, and which are already bringing frenzied talk of witchcraft and a demonic possession for what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer ...?

Customer Reviews

Very good story, excellently read (2008-06-14)

The author successfully mixes real people, from the turbulent time of Henry VIII, with his fictional character Mathew Shardlake. The latter being an ex-monk, owing to the earlier dissolution of the monasteries, and now a lawyer who engages in detective work on the side. The story is an intriguing one that keeps one gripped throughout aided by the superb reading by Anton Lessor, who breathes life into all the various characters. The seven predictions from the Bible's book of Revelation are revealed as the template for seven gruesome murders. I was reminded a bit of David Hewson's first book in his modern-day Rome series in the inventiveness of the plot.

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