Title: Dark fire
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 ...
Subjects: Matthew Shardlake (Fictitious character), Fiction, Lawyers, History, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Lawyers, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, legal, Trials (Murder), Attorney and client
Places: England, Great Britain, London
Time periods: Henry VIII, 1509-1547, 16th century