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It is 1540, and Matthew Shardlake, the lawyer renowned as the sharpest hunchback in the courts of England, is pressed to help a friends young niece who is charged with murder. Despite threats of torture and death by the rack, the girl is inexplicably silent. Shardlake is about to lose her case when he is suddenly granted a reprieveone that will ensnare him in the danger It is 1540, and Matthew Shardlake, the lawyer renowned as the sharpest hunchback in the courts of England, is pressed to help a friends young niece who is charged with murder. Despite threats of... Read More