C. J. Sansom
Heartstone
1545, and England is at war with France; the war is going badly wrong for both king and country. A…
Winter in Madrid
A bestseller in the United Kingdom, C.J. Sansom’s thriller is now available in the U.S. Readers may recognize Sansom for…
Sovereign
Editors' choice
To overawe the rebellious north, Henry VIII makes a grand Progress to York. Travelling ahead are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and…
Winter In Madrid
Having no previous knowledge of Sansom’s prior success, both critically and commercially, with crime novels set in Tudor times, it…
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