Volume 7 in the Shardlake series. 

With eleven-year-old Edward VI on the throne, and his Uncle Edward Seymour acting as Protector, England is at crisis point. The war in Scotland is threatening financial ruin and the peasants are ready to rebel. Working for Henry VIII’s youngest daughter Elizabeth to investigate the murder of a distant relative of her mother’s in Norwich, Matthew Shardlake can see that the country is on the brink of disaster. Finding himself in a city under siege by rebels, he is forced to confront where his loyalties truly lie. 

The seventh and most recent novel in the Shardlake series, Tombland wasn’t conceived as the final book. C. J. Sansom was working on the eighth novel, Ratcliff, when he died in April 2024.