Heartstone

Description:

Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. The King has debased the currency to pay for the war.

subjects: Matthew Shardlake (Fictitious character),  Fiction,  Lawyers,  History,  Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural,  Lawyers, fiction,  London (england), fiction,  Criminal investigation,  Women,  Crimes against,  England, fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, historical

Places: Great Britain,  England

Times: Henry VIII, 1509-1547