«Compulsively gripping Tudor murder mysteries . . . As a plot with a clutch of steel pulls you through dramatic twists and turns and vivid, knowledgeable, widely diverse scenes of Tudor life, you watch Shardlake discern a terrible pattern in the butchery.»
Peter Kemp, Sunday Times Culture
«The fourth in C. J. Sansom’s superb Tudor detective series . . . As with the previous books, Samson’s narrative is highly visual and Revelation will clearly make a white-knuckle film . . . don’t expect to put the book down until you’ve seen it through to the apocalyptic finale.»
Observer
«The twists and turns of Sansom’s novel are steeped in history, but feel as fresh and immediate as a present-day murder mystery.»
Daneet Steffens, Time Out
«Sansom’s meticulous attention to historical detail and vivid characters make this Tudor mystery as gripping and vital as any modern thriller.»
The Times
«A serial killer is using the Book of Revelation for his murders in this outstanding whodunit featuring the bestselling Tudor lawyer Matthew Shardlake.»
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«Sansom’s deeply resonant novel depicts Tudor London as a benighted city overrun by fundamentalist fanatics, heretic-burners and the madness of crowds, while his narrative’s tingling intrigues will have you hooked from first page to last.»
Trevor Lewis, Sunday Times
«Historical mysteries are all the rage, but Sansom’s are in a class of their own. His sheer narrative skill is matchless.»
Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday
«There’s expert historical crime to be found in . . . C. J. Sansom’s Revelation, perhaps the first Tudor serial-killer mystery, which also illuminates 16th century attitudes to madness and fundamentalism.»
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«C. J. Sansom’s novels, set amid the stench and scandal of the 16th century, are impressive both for their intricate detail and serpentine plot twists.»
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«I’ve just returned from a week in the sun when the pick of my holiday reads was C. J. Sansom’s marvellous Dark Fire. It’s a thrilling quest novel set in Tudor London and the second in Sansom’s historical series starring the hunchback lawyer Matthew Shardlake. If, as I’ve been told, the next two books (Sovereign and Revelation) are even better I have further treats in store.»
Jessie Childs, Independent on Sunday summer reads
«The outstanding new whodunnit featuring Tudor lawyer Matthew Shardlake.»
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«This ambitious panorama of a book, the fourth in Sansom’s series set in not-so-merrie Tudor England, more than lives up to the promise of the previous three . . . With wonderful scene-setting . . . plus some deft plotting, Revelation is an absorbing and thought-provoking window on the Tudor world.»
Laura Wilson, Guardian
«Sansom’s powerful and seductive historicism militates against the particular and the personal, or, indeed, the naturalistic. His vivid Tudor London is larger than life, just as we fondly imagine it to be: dangerous, dirty, noisy, picturesque and above all, different.»
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