Dark fire
By: C.J. Sansom
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 579
ISBN-13: 9781405005449; 9780330450782
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Matthew Shardlake (Fictitious character); Fiction; Lawyers; History
Description: It is 1540 and the hottest summer of the sixteenth cantury. Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is busy trying to maintain his legal practice and keep a low profile. But his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of brutally murdering her young cousin, brings him once again into contact with the king's chief minister - and a new assignment ...