Summer 1545. France pulls an armada of its ships to the shores of Albion. England is in danger, and King Henry VIII, despite the crisis that gripped the country, spends his last money reserves in order to confront the enemy. Matthew Shardlake and his faithful assistant Jack Barack, on behalf of Queen Catherine Parr, travels to Portsmouth, the most vulnerable of the cities located in the immediate vicinity of the French ship cannons. Chardlake’s assignment is not easy: one should find out everything about a certain young man, a pupil of the royal court, and why his former teacher, who visited the estate of the pupil’s foster family, unexpectedly committed suicide …
In the world of literary heroes and in the minds of today’s reader, the image of Matthew Shardlake occupies an honorable place among such famous characters as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Nero Wolfe and Commissioner Maigret.
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