num_pages: 583
description: Autumn, 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission by his rebellious subjects in York.Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. As well as legal work processing petitions to the King, Shardlake has reluctantly undertaken a secret mission for Archbishop Cranmer – to ensure the welfare of an important but dangerous conspirator who is to be returned to London for interrogation.But the murder of a York 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 documents which could threaten the Tudor throne, a chain of events unfolds that will lead to Shardlake facing the most terrifying fate of the age . . .
language: English
title: Sovereign
titlecomplete: Sovereign (Matthew Shardlake, #3)
characters: Catherine Howard, Richard Riche, Henry VIII of England, Thomas Cranmer, Matthew Shardlake, Jack Barak, Jane Boleyn
genres: Historical Mystery, British Literature, Historical, Mystery, Tudor Period, Detective, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 28641
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: Viking Books