num_pages: 662
description: Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission of his rebellious subjects in York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. As well as assisting with legal work processing petitions to the King, Shardlake has reluctantly undertaken a special mission - to ensure the welfare of an important but dangerous conspirator being returned to London for interrogation. But the murder of a local glazier involves Shardlake in deeper mysteries, connected not only to the prisoner in York Castle but to the royal family itself. And when Shardlake and Barak stumble upon a cache of secret papers which could threaten the Tudor throne, a chain of events unfolds that will lead Shardlake facing the most terrifying fate of the age...This is the third novel in the compelling Shardlake series.
language: English
title: Sovereign
titlecomplete: Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)
characters: Jane Boleyn, Jack Barak, Catherine Howard, Thomas Cranmer, Henry VIII of England, Richard Riche, Matthew Shardlake
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, British Literature, Thriller, Detective, Historical Mystery, Tudor Period, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 28647
places: York, Yorkshire, England
series: Matthew Shardlake
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Barry Award
category: Best British Crime Novel, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: CWA Gold Dagger, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year
publisher: Pan