Dissolution: A Novel of Tudor England

“Shardlake is a lawyer…In Dissolution his job is to go around all the dissolved monasteries to check out what they’re doing and take notes on what’s happening. He discovers a murder… but you’re not thinking, ‘This is a murder mystery.’ You’re thinking, ‘I’m in the Tudor times, I’m looking through a window. I’m a silent witness to all of this’…They’re fantastic stories. The series is one long chronicle if you like. He’s written seven so far.” Read more...

The Best Historical Fiction Set in England

Lesley Thomson, Thriller and Crime Writer