2003, USA, Viking Books, ISBN 978-3-7, Pub date April 2003, Hardback.It was also nominated for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger in the same year. The US Library Journal review is more critical, commenting: 'His novel is unrelentingly grim in tone, as the reader is forced to plod along with Shardlake and the other mostly unlikable characters.' ĭissolution was nominated for the 2003 Crime Writers' Association (CWA) John Creasey Memorial Dagger, for first books by previously unpublished writers. Read it!' – Colin Dexter 'This is historical fiction at its finest.' – Peter Robinson.

James 'This is a humdinger of a whodunnit. 'The best crime novel I have read this year' – Colin Dexter 'Remarkable.the sights, the voices, the very smell of this turbulent age seem to rise from the page' – P. Set in the 16th century during the dissolution of the monasteries, the book follows the lawyer Shardlake in his attempts to solve the murder of one of Thomas Cromwell's commissioners in the monastery at the fictional town of Scarnsea on the south coast of England.ĭissolution has been well received by critics, although there has been some criticism of the language and detail in the writing. It was dramatised by BBC Radio 4 in 2012. It is Sansom's first published novel, and the first in the Matthew Shardlake Series. Dissolution (2003) is a historical mystery novel by British author C.

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