Dissolution

An exciting and gripping story of murder in Tudor England. Sansom's first book in a series about Cromwell's commissioner, Matthew Shard-lake, is set in a failing monastery on the south coast. The previous commissioner's been murdered and Shardlake and his rather irritating assistant, Mark, are sent to investigate. Plenty of skulduggery and not-what-they-seem relationships in the closed and isolated monastic world keep, for the most part, this story thundering along (although it sags slightly in the middle).

There is a believability about the writing, in particular the dialogue, that grips you and draws you in. I am looking forward to reading the next in the series.

this was a fantastic story. i was wrapped in it completely until the book was finnished.