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|title=Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake)

|author=C J Sansom

|date=May 2007

|isbn=978-0330450799

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And the books are brilliant – certainly the best historical crime which I’ve read. This book is the first in the series and lays the ground for all the future novels, but there’s no obvious exposition and Sansom uses his extensive knowledge with a lightness of touch which is impressive. There’s all he background there, but no sense that every little bit of research has been shoe-horned in – in fact you sense quite the reverse. The plot too is excellent – I really didn’t see the ending coming and had someone else chalked in as the murderer. There’s not a superfluous word in the book and it’s one which you really shouldn’t miss.

[[C J Sansom's Matthew Shardlake Novels in Chronological Order]]