Now a major Disney+ original series, Shardlake &ndash also airing on ITV.&#39A fiendish puzzle and a slice of gritty historical fiction, with a brilliantly unconventional detective at its heart&#39 &ndash Richard Osman, bestselling author of We Solve MurdersDissolution is the first novel in C. J. Sansom&rsquos phenomenally bestselling Shardlake series. After one of Cromwell&#39s 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 only be one outcome dissolution.But on the Sussex coast, at the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control. Cromwell&#39s commissioner, Robin Singleton, has been found dead, his head severed from his body. His horrific murder accompanied by equally sinister acts of sacrilege.Matthew Shardlake, lawyer and longtime supporter of Reform, has been sent by Cromwell to uncover the truth behind the dark happenings at Scarnsea. But Shardlake&#39s investigation soon forces him to question everything that he hears, and everything that he...

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