About the Book: Tombland
Number one bestselling author C. J. Sansom heads to Norwich, as Shardlake
embarks upon a new investigation . . .
Tombland is the seventh novel in C. J. Sansoms number one bestselling Shardlake
series.
Spring, 1549.
Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos . . .
The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Lord
Hertford, rules as Protector. The extirpation of the old religion by radical
Protestants is stirring discontent among the populace while the Protectors
prolonged war with Scotland is proving a disastrous failure and threatens to
involve France.