Tamasin Reedbourne – a junior servant who worked for Queen Catherine Howard when Queen Catherine was executed, she became Barak's wife.Guy Malton – formerly a monk at a monastery at Sussex came to London after the dissolution of the monasteries to practice as an apothecary, later as a physician a target for racial discrimination because of his skin colour.Jack Barak – formerly Thomas Cromwell's man, who later came to work for Shardlake after Cromwell's execution.Matthew Shardlake – a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, the main character and narrator of the series.The seventh book, Tombland, was published in October 2018. Shardlake works on commission initially from Thomas Cromwell in Dissolution and Dark Fire, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in Sovereign and Revelation, Queen Catherine Parr in Heartstone and Lamentation, and Princess Elizabeth in Tombland.
The series' protagonist is the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake, who is assisted in his adventures by Mark Poer and then Jack Barak.
Sansom has said that he plans to write further Shardlake novels taking the lawyer into the reign of Elizabeth I. Sansom, set in the reign of Henry VIII in the 16th century. The Shardlake series is a series of historical mystery novels by C.
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