C J Sansom's bestselling adventures of MAtthew Shardlake continue in the fourth title of the series the haunting Revelation Spring 1543 King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr whom he wants for his sixth wife But this time the object of his affections is resisting Archbishop Cranmer & the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly for Lady Catherine is known to have reformist sympathies Matthew Shardlake meanwhile is working on the case of a teenage boy a religious maniac locked in the Bedlam hospital for the insane Should he be released to his parents when his terrifying actions could lead to him being burned as a heretic? When an old friend is horrifically murdered Shardlake promises his widow for whom he has long had complicated feelings to bring the killer to justice His search leads him to both Cranmer & Catherine Parr
- & with the dark prophecies of the Book of Revelation As London's Bishop Bonner prepares a purge of Protestants Shardlake together with his assistant Jack Barak & his friend Guy Malton follows the trail of a series of horrific murders that shake them to the core & which are already bringing frenzied talk of witchcraft & a demonic possession
- for what else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer ?