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reviewed Lamentation by C. J. Sansom (The Shardlake series)

C. J. Sansom: Lamentation (2015) 4 stars

Summer, 1546. King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are …

Oh well - addictive?

5 stars

I was close giving it only four stars time, thinking "come on, Matthew, you can't be serious?". But the last 200 pages were again so brilliant and thrilling, that five stars are the obvious choice.