The year is 1540. Shardlake has been pulled, against his better judgement, into defending Elizabeth Wentworth, charged with murdering her cousin. He is powerless to help the girl, yet she is suddenly given a reprieve – courtesy of Cromwell. The cost of the reprieve to Shardlake is two weeks once again in his service

It is 1537 and Thomas Cromwell has ordered that all monasteries should be dissolved. Cromwell's Commissioner is found dead, his head severed from his body. Dr Shardlake is sent to uncover the truth behind what has happened. His investigation forces him to question everything that he himself believes

1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers, and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the press, radio and television are controlled; the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary police and British Jews face ever greater constraints. There are terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House. Defiance, though, is growing. In Britain, Winston Churchill's Resistance organisation is increasingly a thorn in the government's side. And in a Birmingham mental hospital an incarcerated scientist, Frank Muncaster, may hold a secret that could change the balance of the world struggle forever. Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, secretly acting as a spy for the Resistance, is given by them the mission to rescue his old friend Frank and get him out of the country. Before long he, together with a disparate group of Resistance activists, will find themselves fugitives in the midst of London’s Great Smog; as David’s wife Sarah finds herself drawn into a world more terrifying than she ever could have imagined. And hard on their heels is Gestapo Sturmbannfuhrer Gunther Hoth, brilliant, implacable hunter of men . . . At once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping, humane spy thriller and a poignant love story – with DOMINION C. J. Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel

Invierno de 1537, Inglaterra. Bajo el reinado de Enrique Vlll, la disolución de los monasterios está en marcha.Thomas Cromwell, el temido vicario general del rey se enfrenta a la vieja Iglesia católica con leyes draconianas y la mayor red de informadores nunca vista. La reina Ana Bolena ha sido decapitada y los monasterios, amenazados con la desamortización, sufren el expolio de sus tesoros y ven peligrar sus tierras, codiciadas por cortesanos y aristócratas.Y mientras la tensión aumenta, los acontecimientos toman un giro desgraciado cuando, en el monasterio benedictino de Scarnsea, el comisionado cíe Cromwell aparece muerto con la cabeza separada del cuerpo. Ante la gravedad del hecho, el vicario envía al monasterio al abogado Matthew Shardlake, un reformista de aguda inteligencia y carácter noble, para que dirija la investigación. Pero cuando Shardlake y su joven secretario y protegido Mark Poer llegan a Scarnsea, el panorama no puede ser más desolador. Bajo la aparente calma monacal se esconde un mundo de delitos sexuales, malversación de fondos, traición y; para colmo, otros dos nuevos y terribles crímenes.Además, el trabajo del abogado se ve perturbado por una serie de desagradables descubrimientos sobre Cromwell y la Reforma que harán vacilar su fe. Con una trama minuciosamente elaborada, El gallo negro es una apasionante novela de intriga que se desarrolla durante los tempestuosos albores del estado de derecho moderno, una época en que las leyes civiles iniciaban el largo y difícil camino para despojar al poder eclesiástico del papel normativo que ejercía en la sociedad

Año 1940. Imparables, los alemanes invanden Europa. Madrid pasa hambre y se ha convertido en un hervidero de espías de todas las potencias mundiales. Harry Brett es un antiguo soldado que conoció la Guerra Civil y quedó traumatizado tras la evacuación de Dunkerque. Ahora trabaja para el servicio secreto británico: debe ganarse la confianza de su antiguo condiscípulo Sandy Forsyth, quién se dedica a negocios turbios en la España del Caudillo. Por el camino, Harry se verá envuelto en un juego muy peligroso y asaltado por amargos recuerdos

From one of P. D. James's favorite mystery authors comes the third Shardlake novel Autumn 1541. A plot against the throne has been uncovered, and Henry VIII has set off on a spectacular progress from London to York, along with a thousand soldiers, the cream of the nobility, and his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, to quell his rebellious northern subjects. Awaiting his arrival are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his loyal assistant, Jack Barak. In addition to processing petitions to the king, Shardlake's task is to protect a dangerous conspirator until he is transported back to London for interrogation. But when a local glazier is murdered, things get a little more complicated as the murder seems to be not only connected to Shardlake's prisoner but also to the royal family itself. Then Shardlake stumbles upon a cache of secret papers that throws into doubt the legitimacy of the entire royal line, and a chain of events unfolds that threatens Shardlake with the most terrifying fate of the age: imprisonment in the Tower of London

A compelling thriller and love story set in post-civil War Spain Fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind and Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong will fall in love with Winter in Madrid, the arresting new novel from C. J. Sansom. In September 1940, the Spanish Civil War is over and Madrid lies in ruins while the Germans continue their march through Europe. Britain stands alone as General Franco considers whether to abandon neutrality and enter the war. Into this uncertain world comes Harry Brett, a privileged young man who was recently traumatized by his experience in Dunkirk and is now a reluctant spy for the British Secret Service. Sent to gain the confidence of Sandy Forsyth, an old school friend turned shadowy Madrid businessman, Brett finds himself involved in a dangerous game—and surrounded by memories. Meanwhile, Sandy's girlfriend, ex-Red Cross nurse Barbara Clare, is engaged in a secret mission of her own—to find her former lover Bernie Piper, whose passion for the Communist cause led him into the International Brigades and who vanished on the bloody battlefields of the Jarama. In a vivid and haunting depiction of wartime Spain, Winter in Madrid is an intimate and riveting tale that offers a remarkable sense of history unfolding and the profound impact of impossible choices