Other parts played by members of the cast. Heartstone: A Shardlake Novel FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General Publisher: Random House of Canada Published: April 2011 Format: Book-paperback Pages. Justin Salinger and Bryan Dick return as Matthew Shardlake and Jack Barak in Colin MacDonald's atmospheric dramatisation of the best-selling novel by CJ Sansom. For just across the Channel the French fleet is getting ready to attack. And as Shardlake and his sidekick travel the countryside in their search for the truth, everywhere they see signs of preparations for war.
A parade of intriguing characters to interview and interrogate - some disdainful of the hunchbacked lawyer some obstructive and even dangerous some not at all what they seem. "And the way to Hampshire lay through West Sussex. The Hobbey-Curteys case leads Shardlake and Barak to Sir Nicholas's estate near Portsmouth, in Hampshire.
A patient for nearly 20 years, Ellen is frightened and lonely - and in love with Shardlake. I was on her when she went down." In between, lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak find themselves embroiled in two murky investigations - the first involving the "monstrous wrongs" allegedly perpetrated by wealthy cloth merchant Sir Nicholas Hobbey against his young ward, Hugh Curteys the second concerning the troubled past of a Bedlam inmate called Ellen Fettiplace. It begins with a summons from Queen Catherine Parr: "Master Shardlake, I would welcome your personal counsel on a case." It ends with the sinking of the warship, the Mary Rose: "So tall, so grand.
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