Revelation - Sansom C J

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 and 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 and
Catherine Parr - and 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, and
his friend, Guy Malton, follows the trail of a series of horrific
murders that shake them to the core, and which are already bringing
frenzied talk of witchcraft and a demonic possession - for what
else would the Tudor mind make of a serial killer . . .?