Heartstone (Matthew Shardlake 5)

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Ultimately I was willing to forgive some of the plot holes because Matthew’s journey in Heartstone was so rich and heart-rending. CJ Sansom combines a knack of getting us to experience the past with a talent for warmly memorable characterisation and skilled plot construction. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate.

Heartstone differs markedly, being more of a mystery-solving plot, with incidents having happened in the distant past. Much of the action takes place outside London in Hampshire, Sussex and in Portsmouth and its surrounds, including the Solent. With such a remarkable cast of characters, Sansom had to put them through extremely difficult obstacles to test their limits and to give his readers a breathtaking look into the Tudor world. I pitied Ellen, all the more when I learned she had been incarcerated in the Bedlam after she was attacked and raped near her home in Sussex.

Then again, as soon as the Mary Rose was mentioned, I instantly knew what was going to happen to it ( after all, I’ve seen what’s left of it in a museum. For example, Shardlake spends quite a bit of time in a manor house that teems with dark secrets and hidden threats. Rich in the history of these turbulent times this is a masterful read and one of the best historical crime novels you could read. He is the wise old man that heals everyone’s wounds and is a comforting counsel when someone needs his help.

Those around him suggest that he let her be, as she is happy there, working with other inmates, and determined never to leave despite being free to.There is a wealth of interesting detail about the Mary Rose and other ships of the fleet assembled to repulse the French invasions forces, but throughout the strands of the two separate investigations Matthew Shardlake is undertaking drive the narrative forward. If you are like me and are addicted to the Shardlake mysteries, you need to read, “Heartstone” by C. I only kept going after seeing that Goodreaders had granted this book the highest rating of all Shardlake novels.