Title: Sovereign
Description: The third installment of C. J. Sansom's acclaimed Matthew Shardlake mystery seriesC. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew Shardlake series, *Dissolution*, was selected by P. D. James in *The Wall Street Journal* as one of her top-five all-time favorite books. Now in *Sovereign*, Shardlake and his loyal assistant, Jack Barak, find themselves embroiled in royal intrigue when a plot against King Henry VIII is uncovered in York and a dangerous conspirator they've been charged with transporting to London is connected to the death of a local glazer.
Subjects: History, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Historical fiction, Legal stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Great britain, fiction, Lawyers, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Matthew Shardlake (Fictitious character), Lawyers, Murder
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: Henry VIII, 1509-1547