At the center of it all is Catherine Parr, Henry's last queen and a devoted Protestant. Lamentation follows the maneuverings of this divided group of Protestants and Catholics both sides feverishly plotting to influence the King. Sansom uses the gruesome spectacle of the burning to reintroduce us to Shardlake, his hunchbacked, mystery-solving lawyer, and most of the king's inner circle. It's 1546 the dying King Henry VIII - having broken with Rome a decade before - is wavering on religious policy, and supporters of his previous reforms fear for their lives as the hunt for heretics intensifies. Sansom uses this horrific scene to set the stage for Lamentation, the sixth installment of his Matthew Shardlake mysteries, set in Tudor England. We start with a pyre: A young woman and three men are to burn, condemned as heretics. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Lamentation Author C.
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