Revelation - C.J. Sansom

When I heard that C J Sansom was planning a fourth in his Matthew Shardlake series, my initial reaction was somewhat mixed. Although I have enjoyed all the previous books (Dissolution, Dark Fire and Sovereign), I do feel they have got progressively weaker. Similarly, when I heard that the storyline was going to feature a religion obsessed serial killer, my concerns grew. The plotline seemed a little too modern, a little too anachronistic. Thankfully, my fears proved ill-founded, as Sansom has once again turned in an excellent and gripping novel, which grabs the attention of the reader and keeps it, despite the book's mammoth 500 plus pages. As with ...