Never read any of these before, but very very good.
Quasi detective novels set in Tudor England whose heroine/ detective Shardlake is a lawyer/enforcer who works for Thomas Cromwell, who is Henry VIII’s enforcer.
They (Shardlake and manservant whose name I forget) are sent to a monastery somewhere in Sussex to investigate the murder of his predecessor as Cromwell’s emissary. They encounter a den of essentially hostile Franciscan monks, one of whom they assume to be the perpetrator. Many of the monks are venal and corrupt but none of them is the murderer, and the plot is very well structured and developed.
Very good – I must read more.
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