Luckily for us, they feel as if they’re getting broader rather than simply longer. As with many genre authors, Sansom’s books are growing as he becomes more successful. (Though no doubt Sansom will prove me wrong before long!) Instead, the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake roved over the countryside from London to Portsmouth, trying to keep his servant Barak from being conscripted, poked around into a dubious wardship for the Queen and investigated the crime which consigned an old friend to Bedlam.Īs that summary suggests, there’s plenty going on in Heartstone. Sansom’s talents would have been wasted if he had attached his Tudor hero to a regiment and sent him yomping off into battle – the results would have been interesting, but rather too sub-Bernard Cornwell. “SHARDLAKE GOES TO WAR” declares the cover of Heartstone, the new C.J. Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J.
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