With Lamentation number one bestselling author C. J. Sansom returns us to the dark and gripping world of his Tudor investigator, lawyer Matthew Shardlake. As Henry the Eighth's long reign finally draws to a close, Matthew Shardlake is summoned to Whitehall Palace, to the Queen's private chambers, and asked to undertake a delicate mission, a mission where failure will put Catherine Parr's very life in mortal danger . . . The Shardlake series has sold over two million copies in the UK alone. Lamentation is set to be one of the biggest and most eagerly anticipated publications of the autumn.