<p><span st<x>yle="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-wrap: wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ba<x>sed on the internationally acclaimed Tudor murder mystery novels by C.J. Sansom, the four-part drama is set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries.</span><br/><span st<x>yle="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-wrap: wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The series will follow the story of Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer with an acute sense of justice and one of the few honest men in a world beset with scheming and plots. Shardlake works for Thomas Cromwell, the dangerous and all-powerful right-hand man to Henry VIII.</span><br/><span st<x>yle="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-wrap: wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Despite Shardlake’s unwavering loyalty to Cromwell and the Crown, his position in society is unfavored due to his appearance, as a person living with scoliosis during the Tudor period, suffering the indignity of being abused as a “crookback” wherever he turns. As he investigates the murder of one of Cromwell’s commissioners at a monastery in the remote town of Scarnsea, he is accompanied by Jack Barak, a cocky and good-looking character who may be Cromwell’s spy.</span></p>
