The Shardlake series

Now a major Disney+ original series, Shardlake – airing this summer on ITV. ''A fiendish puzzle and a slice of gritty historical fiction, with a brilliantly unconventional detective at its heart'' – Richard Osman, bestselling author of We Solve Murders Dissolution is the first novel in C. J. Sansom’s phenomenally bestselling Shardlake series. After one of Cromwell''s commissioners is brutally murdered, Matthew Shardlake is drawn into an investigation that becomes darker than he could have ever imagined . . . England, 1537. It is a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church. The country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers it has ever seen. And under the orders of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent throughout the country to investigate the monasteries. There can