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Originally Posted by HoraceWimp

I really enjoyed it. It was read within two days and that's often a good sign. I wouldn't hold Sansom up as being a a master of mystery detective suspense but I found it easy to read, well paced with nicely drawn characters and plenty of twists and turns.

I was particularly interested in the sub narrative about the dissolution of the monastries by Henry the VIII as I'm particularly interested in Tudor times at the moment.

There's 5 books in the Matthew Shardlake series, it starts with Dissolution and Dark Fire is in the second in the series. I also have Sansom's Winter in Madrid lined up to read as well, but now you've mentioned it, I'll add Dominion to the list!

I read a lot of historical fiction and would thoroughly recommend Jack Hight's Saladin trilogy as well as Michael Arnold's Stryker series set during the English Civil War if those kind of things interest you.

I would certainly recommend Dissolution too if you like Sansom's writing style.

Thanks. My interest in the Tudors has stayed with me since school (I once visited Mells Manor, a purported gift from Henry VIII to Edward Horner as his reward for assisting in the dissolution - the "plum" Little Jack Horner pulled out of the pie - though the story may be apocryphal), so I'll definitely be adding Dissolution to my reading pile.