Sovereign

Sovereign by C.J. Sansom.
Third book in the Shardlake series.

This book is even better than the last book, Dark Fire, which was awesome anyway. This time, Shardlake has to travel to York with the King's Progress to supervise the well being of a prisoner who is being taken back to London to be tortured. Unfortunately, he manages to get himself stuck with another murder mystery and also finds out information that could unseat the King from his throne. The Royal timeline. And Henry isn't the heir to the throne. This is then followed by being humiliated by the King as the progress enters York. This is the last straw for Shardlake and he begins to feel treasonous. I enjoy Sansom's fiction and have enjoyed the much the same. It was a very big book but I managed to finish it in just over a week. I am giving it 9/10.

MB

This is another example of Sansom at his best. Our hero Matthew Shardlake the crook back Lawyer from Lincolns Inn in London has been tasked with joining the Great Progress which was Henry VIII's attempt to get the north on his side following an uprising against him. Shardlake and his clerk Barak travel to York with an extra duty for Archbishop Cranmer. When they get there there is a murder of a Glaser and then some documents come to light that our hero comes across. This puts Shardlake in danger. The politics of the time is fascinating and Sansom manages to keep a good yarn going whiles still maintaining a great deal of historical fact. This is the best of the books so far. I have already started the fourth book. I give this a 9 out of 10

JB

Overall, it is 9/10.