Revelation: A Matthew Shardlake Mystery by CJ Sansom
Following a friend’s grisly murder, Shardlake is drawn into a Tudor version of Se7en. Despite characters often speaking in anachronistically modern idiom, Sansom’s evocation of 16th-century London amidst the turmoil of the Reformation is compelling; and when not slowed by superfluous subplots, Revelation is a brisk thriller.
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Revelation by CJ Sansom - Review
Netherland by Joseph O’Neill - Review
Netherland: A Novel by Joseph O’Neill
What is Netherland, the strange-but-familiar compound that Joseph O’Neill has made the title of his captivating new novel? At its plainest, perhaps, it’s a singular bit of the Netherlands, the country from which the narrator, Hans van den Broek, arrived in the late 1990s, via London, as an equities analyst [...]
