“ All the circumstances are relevant, everything must be examined from every angle!”Īnd so this complicated and thoroughly captivating story begins. As the investigation begins, Shardlake, very much the teacher, shares with his pupil, something he was taught many years earlier by his own teacher, “In any investigation, what are the most relevant circumstances? None,” he would bark in reply. Shardlake is accompanied by his protégé Mark Poer, the two men arriving in the late fall, at a dark and dismal place, unwelcome. Singleton had been be-headed in the kitchen and all are suspect. Cromwell is at the centre of a powerful political network, and has called in Shardlake to investigate the murder of another commissioner, Robin Singleton, who had been sent to a large monastery, Scarnsea, to secure their dissolution. I meet, for the first time, Master Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer in the courts of England, and a Commissioner of Lord Cromwell, Vicar General of King Henry VIII. I found this novel began exactly where the last Alison Weir novel left off, in 1537, with the death of Queen Jane, “who had died of childbed fever two weeks before”. Which just about sums up this time in the history of Great Britain and its monarch. I found that the word dissolution means closure, disbanding, termination, ending, suspension, and also that the word dissolute means degenerate, depraved, immoral, debauched, self-indulgent and dissipated.
I knew when the Dissolution took place during the reign of King Henry VIII – but I thought I would look up the definition of the word. The first in the series is titled Dissolution.
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