C. J. Sansom
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C. J. Sansom is an English writer of crime novels.
He came to prominence with his series set in the reign of Henry VIII in the 16th century, whose main character is the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake. Shardlake works on commission initially from Thomas Cromwell in Dissolution and Dark Fire and then Thomas Cranmer in Sovereign.
His most recent novel, Winter in Madrid, is a spy thriller set in Spain in 1940.
Sansom was educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he decided to retrain as a solicitor. He practised for a while in Sussex as a lawyer for the disadvantaged, then he quit in order to work full-time as a writer.
Dark Fire won the 2005 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, awarded by the Crime Writers' Association.
[edit] List of works
Matthew Shardlake Series
- Dissolution (2003), ISBN 1-4050-0542-4
- Dark Fire (2004), ISBN 1-4050-0544-0
- Sovereign (2006), ISBN 1-4050-5048-9
- Revelation (Forthcoming)
Other
- Winter in Madrid (2006), ISBN 1-4050-0546-7
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