num_pages: 550
description: Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But this time the object of his affections is resisting. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. Meanwhile, a teenage boy, a religious maniac, has been placed in the Bedlam hospital for the insane. When an old friend of Matthew Shardlake is murdered, his investigations leads to connections to both, and to the prophecies of the book of Revelation. Shardlake follows a trail of horrific murders that are igniting frenzied talk of witchcraft and demonic possession. For what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer...?
language: English
title: Revelation
titlecomplete: Revelation (Matthew Shardlake, #4)
characters: Dorothy Elliard, Jack Barak, Guy Malton, Thomas Cranmer, Matthew Shardlake
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, British Literature, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Historical Mystery, Tudor Period, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 23438
places: London, England
series: Matthew Shardlake
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: National Book Awards Crime Book of the Year
publisher: MacMillan