Matthew Shardlake's 'The Book Dissolution'

The Book Dissolution is about trying to find the truth about a murder in a Monastery in Tudor England in 1537, about when the monks' world comes to an end. The main character Matthew Shardlake is a lawyer in London working through the religious big changes in the rule of Henry VIII. The King's minister who is devoted to the destruction of the monasteries. His goal is to try to find the truth about the death of a royal representative at the Monastery of Scarnsea in Sussex. When Shardlake enters with his youth helper Mark, an attractive clerk with a fragility for woman, he discovers a incomprehensible murder. The king's government worker who is in charge has got his head off with a sword. Shardlake and Mark then go ahead forward to inquire the leading monks, all who seem to be hiding something.
There are other suspects, a raving, badly injured monk who makes threats against the government in power destroying the monastic world; and a beautiful but distrustful and suspicious female helper in the hospital. The violence does not stop with the first murder. As the killer tries to cover their tracks, more deaths happen. Putting his sharp legal mind to the process of showing the killer Shardlake is interfered slow down by his physical disability. Since a boy he has been badly injured by a hunchback, causing him bodily pain and mental severely upset feelings; no doctor can cure him, while many believe him cursed and women reject his appearance. As Shardlake becomes sure of the killer's identity the book draws to a thrilling end result, including a deadly scene in the abbey church and a dash across the dangerous seaside low, wet land areas in pursuit of the evil person. But, even if the mystery is solved, this may not be enough to save the monastery of Scarnsea from breaking