{"id":3647,"date":"2023-01-20T13:10:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T11:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2023-01-20T23:19:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T21:19:22","slug":"take-three-books-suzanne-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.georgiahill.co.uk\/?p=3647","title":{"rendered":"Take Three Books: Suzanne Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019m absolutely delighted to have Suzanne Snow on the blog today!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hi Georgia, thank you for including me on your blog to write about these three books!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019re very welcome. Over to you, tell us all about your first book:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book I\u2019d most like to have written is Dark Fire<\/em> by C.J. Sansom, the second in his Shardlake series. I\u2019m a huge fan of historical crime and for me Sansom brings the Tudor world so magnificently to life. Matthew Shardlake is a superb character; a principled lawyer navigating the political and religious turmoil of the time. In this book he is trying to keep a low profile whilst defending a young woman accused of murder and finding both difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Cromwell gives Shardlake an assignment he does not want, to locate the formula for Greek Fire so Cromwell can use it for his own ends. Even though Cromwell is barely on the page in person, Sansom uses his presence and the implicit threat to Shardlake if he fails, brilliantly. The heatwave, the sights, sounds, smells, a sense of fear and the city of London are almost characters in themselves, and when I\u2019m reading the book, I become part of Shardlake\u2019s world with a glimpse into how Tudor times might actually have felt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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