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

Times: Henry VIII, 1509-1547,  16th century