Praise for REVELATION

‘If this isn’t the best crime novel of the year, then we’re going to have a great year’

Radio 4’s Front Row

‘Historical mysteries are all the rage, but Sansom’s are in a class of their own. His sheer narrative skill is matchless’

Mail on Sunday

‘Compulsively gripping Tudor murder mysteries . . . As a plot with a clutch of steel pulls you through dramatic twists and turns and vivid, knowledgeable, widely diverse scenes of Tudor life, you watch Shardlake discern a terrible pattern in the butchery . . . Shardlake’s tracking down of the zealous psychotic makes for a terrific whodunnit read. Clues are cunningly laid in place from the opening pages. Suspects and false leads abound. Sansom plays fair but constructs his puzzle so craftily that only an exceptionally acute reader will solve this case before Shardlake does’

Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

‘The fourth in C. J. Sansom’s superb Tudor detective series . . . don’t expect to put the book down until you’ve seen it through to the apocalyptic finale’

Observer

‘Sansom’s absorbing, substantial novels transcend the limitations of crime fiction while conforming to its conventions’

Sunday Telegraph

‘The murder mystery is enthralling, but Sansom is intent on the bigger picture. The book has the compulsive quality of a fast-moving narrative, but takes the reader deep into a world where torture and death are not merely endemic but fantastically envisaged at every turn . . . a masterly evocation’

Independent