==Crime (historical)==
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{{newreview
|author=C J Sansom
|title=Dark Fire
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=1540 was the hottest summer of the sixteenth century but Matthew Shardlake was doing his best to hold his legal practice together, which was made more difficult by the fact that he believed himself to be out of favour with Thomas Cromwell. He tried to keep a low profile but when he defended the accused in a most unpopular case – that of a girl accused of brutally murdering her cousin – he found that the king's chief minister had a new assignment for him. Unless he could solve Cromwell's problem his client was likely to die a slow and nasty death.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330450786</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=D E Meredith