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Rent Dissolution
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: May 2004
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Retail Price: $19.00
Pages: 400
Synopsis
In 1537, the conflict in England between Catholics and the newly established Church of England is at its height, as monasteries are closed and turned into secular institutions. When a Church official is murdered in one of them, a hunchbacked lawyer named Matthew Shardlake is hired by the king's men to investigate the crime. What he finds on his arrival at Scarnsea Monastery makes neither side look good--and Shardlake's own life may be in danger.
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