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The Tudor sleuth who's cracked the secret of suspense

A review of Lamentation, by C.J. Sansom. This latest instalment of the Matthew Shardlake series maintains momentum over 600 pages

1 November 2014

9:00 AM

1 November 2014

9:00 AM

Lamentation C.J. Sansom

Pan Macmillan/Mantle, pp.650, £20, ISBN: 9781447260257

Some reviewers are slick and quick. Rapid readers, they remember everything, take no notes, quote at will. I’m the plodding sort, making more notes than I can ever use and underlining so many quotes that, if I put them all in, it would constitute a republication of the book.

But I’ve not done this with Lamentation, the sixth novel in C.J.

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