Summer, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos... Since the old King's death, Shardlake has been working as a lawyer in the service of Henry's younger daughter, the Lady Elizabeth. The gruesome murder of Edith Boleyn, a distant Norfolk relation of Elizabeth's mother - which could have political implications for Elizabeth, brings Shardlake to the summer assizes at Norwich. The seventh novel in C. J. Sansom's number one bestselling Shardlake series.