Lamentation Audiobook (Free)

Matthew Shardlake is normally back in Lamentation, from the main bestselling author C. J. Sansom.

Summer, 1546. Ruler Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are involved in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever is victorious will control the government of Henry’s successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. As heretics are hunted across London, as well as the radical Protestant Anne Askew can be burned on the stake, the Catholic party focus their assault on Henry’s sixth wife, about Lamentation Matthew Shardlake’s older coach, Queen Catherine Parr.

Shardlake, even now haunted by occasions aboard the warship Mary Rose the entire year before, is focusing on the Cotterstoke Will case, a savage dispute between rival siblings. After that, unexpectedly, he is summoned to Whitehall Palace and requested help by his old patron, the today beleaguered and eager Queen.

For Catherine Parr has a secret. She’s created a confessional reserve, Lamentation of the Sinner, therefore radically Protestant that if it came to the King’s interest it could provide both her and her sympathizers crashing down. But, even though book was kept secret and concealed inside a locked chest in the Queen’s private chamber, it has – inexplicably – vanished. Only one page has been found, clutched in the hands of a murdered London printer.

Shardlake’s investigations take him on a trail that starts among the backstreet printshops of London but leads him and Jack Barak into the dark and labyrinthine globe of the politics of the royal courtroom; a world he previously sworn never to enter again. Devotion to the Queen will drive him right into a swirl of intrigue inside Whitehall Palace, where Catholic enemies and Protestant friends can be similarly dangerous, and the politics opportunists, who’ll follow the wind wherever it blows, more threatening than either.

The theft of Queen Catherine’s book proves to be connected towards the terrible loss of life of Anne Askew, while his involvement using the Cotterstoke litigants threatens to bring Shardlake himself to the stake.

The prior books in the bestselling Shardlake series are Dissolution, Dark Open fire, Sovereign, Revelation and Heartstone. Continue the gripping historic series with Tombland.