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Violence
Some
Murder; Tudor executions; danger to the queen
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of religious persecution, loyalty, and surviving the final years of Henry VIII
What this book is about
The sixth Shardlake novel (2014) follows the lawyer as he is charged by Queen Catherine Parr herself to find her stolen confessional manuscript before Henry VIII discovers it. Tudor politics at their most dangerous. For older teens and adults.
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Execution themes
Religious persecution
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