Heartstone

An old servant of Catherine Parr gives Matthew Shardlake an intriguing case involving claims of ‘monstrous wrongs’ committed against a ward of the court. Shardlake and his assistant Barak travel to Portsmouth where they find a city about to become a war zone. Shardlake also takes on the case of Ellen Fettipace, a young woman held in the Bedlam. Book 5 of series.