C J Sansom: Heartstone [2011] paperback Condition:Good Bess of Hardwick

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C J Sansom: Heartstone [2011] paperback Condition:Good Bess of HardwickHeartstone is C. J. Sansom's fifth spellbinding mystery in the Shardlake series. Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel . . . Meanwhile, Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. Asked to investigate claims of 'monstrous wrongs' committed against his young ward, Hugh Curteys, by Sir