Lamentation

About “Lamentation”

In this 2014 novel by C. J. Sansom, set in summer 1546, King Henry VIII is dying while Protestant and Catholic councillors fight for control of his successor's government. As heretics are hunted across London and the Protestant party focuses its attack on Queen Catherine Parr, Matthew Shardlake is summoned to Whitehall Palace to help his old patron, the queen.