Heartstone Audiobook (Free)

Heartsone is C. J. Sansom’s fifith spellbinding mystery in the Shardlake series.

Summer, 1545. Britain is at war. Henry VIII’s invasion of France has truly gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is normally preparing to sail across the Route. As the British fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the biggest militia army it has ever noticed. The King provides debased the currency to cover the battle, and England is in the grip of soaring inflation and economic crisis.

On the other hand Matthew Shardlake is about Heartstone given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. Asked to research statements of ‘monstrous wrongs’ dedicated against a young ward of the court, which have already involved one mysterious loss of life, Shardlake and his helper Barak trip to Portsmouth.

Once arrived, Shardlake and Barak end up in a town preparing to turn into a war zone; and Shardlake uses the chance to also investigate the mysterious past of Ellen Fettiplace, a woman incarcerated in the Bedlam. The growing mysteries throughout the young ward, as well as the events that damaged Ellen’s family members nineteen years before, involve Shardlake in reunions both with a vintage friend and a vintage enemy near to the throne. Events will converge on board one of the King’s great warships, primed for battle in Portsmouth harbour .

Continue the gripping historical series with Lamentation and Tombland.