5/29/2023 0 Comments Shardlake heartstone![]() ![]() 'The best novel in this richly entertaining series. Soon events will converge on board one of the King's great warships gathered in Portsmouth harbour, waiting to sail out and confront the approaching French fleet. Heartstone is his fifth Matthew Shardlake mystery. The mysteries surrounding the Hobbey family, and the events that destroyed Ellen's family nineteen years before, involve Shardlake in reunions both with an old friend and an old enemy close to the throne. There, Shardlake also intends to investigate the mysterious past of Elen Fettiplace, a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam.Once in Portsmouth, Shardlake and Barak find themselves in a city preparing for war. Asked to investigate claims of 'monstrous wrongs' committed against his young ward Hugh Curteys, by Sir Nicholas Hobbey, Shardlake and his assistant Barak journey to Portsmouth. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. ![]()
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