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Año 1940. Imparables, los alemanes invanden Europa. Madrid pasa hambre y se ha convertido en un hervidero de espías de todas las potencias mundiales. Harry Brett es un antiguo soldado que conoció la Guerra Civil y quedó traumatizado tras la evacuación de Dunkerque. Ahora trabaja para el servicio secreto británico: debe ganarse la confianza de su antiguo condiscípulo Sandy Forsyth, quién se dedica a negocios turbios en la España del Caudillo. Por el camino, Harry se verá envuelto en un juego muy peligroso y asaltado por amargos recuerdos.

Matthew Shardlake series #3

Autumn, 1541. Following the uncovering of a plot against his throne in Yorkshire, King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to overawe his rebellious subjects there. Accompanied by a thousand soldiers, the cream of the nobility, and his fifth wife Catherine Howard, the King is to attend an extravagant submission of the local gentry at York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak.

As well as assisting with legal work processing petitions to the King, Shardlake has reluctantly undertaken a special mission – to ensure the welfare of an important but dangerous conspirator being returned to London for interrogation. But the murder of a local glazier involves Shardlake in deeper mysteries, connected not only to the prisoner in York Castle but to the royal family itself.

As the Great Progress arrives in the city, Shardlake and Barak stumble upon a cache of secret papers that holds danger for the King's throne, and a chain of events unfolds that will lead Shardlake facing the most terrifying fate of the age.

A compelling thriller and love story set in post-civil War Spain

Fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon's and Sebastian Faulks's will fall in love with , the arresting new novel from C. J. Sansom. In September 1940, the Spanish Civil War is over and Madrid lies in ruins while the Germans continue their march through Europe. Britain stands alone as General Franco considers whether to abandon neutrality and enter the war.

Into this uncertain world comes Harry Brett, a privileged young man who was recently traumatized by his experience in Dunkirk and is now a reluctant spy for the British Secret Service. Sent to gain the confidence of Sandy Forsyth, an old school friend turned shadowy Madrid businessman, Brett finds himself involved in a dangerous game—and surrounded by memories.

Meanwhile, Sandy's girlfriend, ex-Red Cross nurse Barbara Clare, is engaged in a secret mission of her own—to find her former lover Bernie Piper, whose passion for the Communist cause led him into the International Brigades and who vanished on the bloody battlefields of the Jarama.

In a vivid and haunting depiction of wartime Spain, is an intimate and riveting tale that offers a remarkable sense of history unfolding and the profound impact of impossible choices.

Matthew Shardlake series #2

In 1540, during the reign of Henry VIII, Shardlake is asked to help a young girl accused of murder. She refuses to speak in her defense even when threatened with torture. But just when the case seems lost, Thomas Cromwell, the king’s feared vicar general, offers Shardlake two more weeks to prove his client’s innocence. In exchange, Shardlake must find a lost cache of ‘Dark Fire’, a legendary weapon of mass destruction. What ensues is a page-turning adventure, filled with period detail and history.

‘Atmospheric and engaging’ (Margaret George), this second book in Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series delves again into the dark and superstitious world of Cromwell's England introduced in .

Invierno de 1537, Inglaterra. Bajo el reinado de Enrique Vlll, la disolución de los monasterios está en marcha.Thomas Cromwell, el temido vicario general del rey se enfrenta a la vieja Iglesia católica con leyes draconianas y la mayor red de informadores nunca vista. La reina Ana Bolena ha sido decapitada y los monasterios, amenazados con la desamortización, sufren el expolio de sus tesoros y ven peligrar sus tierras, codiciadas por cortesanos y aristócratas.Y mientras la tensión aumenta, los acontecimientos toman un giro desgraciado cuando, en el monasterio benedictino de Scarnsea, el comisionado cíe Cromwell aparece muerto con la cabeza separada del cuerpo. Ante la gravedad del hecho, el vicario envía al monasterio al abogado Matthew Shardlake, un reformista de aguda inteligencia y carácter noble, para que dirija la investigación. Pero cuando Shardlake y su joven secretario y protegido Mark Poer llegan a Scarnsea, el panorama no puede ser más desolador. Bajo la aparente calma monacal se esconde un mundo de delitos sexuales, malversación de fondos, traición y; para colmo, otros dos nuevos y terribles crímenes.Además, el trabajo del abogado se ve perturbado por una serie de desagradables descubrimientos sobre Cromwell y la Reforma que harán vacilar su fe.

Con una trama minuciosamente elaborada, El gallo negro es una apasionante novela de intriga que se desarrolla durante los tempestuosos albores del estado de derecho moderno, una época en que las leyes civiles iniciaban el largo y difícil camino para despojar al poder eclesiástico del papel normativo que ejercía en la sociedad.