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Revelation shardlake6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() His search leads him to connections not only with the boy in Bedlam, but with Archbishop Cranmer and Catherine Parr, and with the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation. Should he be released as his parents want, when his terrifying actions could lead to him being burned as a heretic? Then, when an old friend is horrifically murdered, Shardlake promises his widow - for whom he has long had complicated feelings - to bring the killer to justice. Matthew Shardlake, meanwhile, is working on the case of a teenage boy, a religious maniac who has been placed by the King's council in the Bedlam hospital for the insane. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies. It is spring, 1543 and King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife - but this time the object of his affections is resisting. ![]()
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