Under the snow, two investigators arrive before a gloomy monastery beside a threatening swamp. William of Baskerville and EDSO in Italy in the Middle Ages by Umberto Eco? No, Matthew Shardlake, hunchbacked lawyer, Mark and his assistant in England at the time of King Henry VIII and his cruel "Premier" Thomas Cromwell. The Crown wants to recover monasteries and their property in the name of the new religion. And in the monastery of Scarnsea the envoy of the king has been murdered ... For me too I felt the presence of Sean Connery in this survey and in all the atmosphere of the novel, therefore, a negative point. But I liked the character of Matthew Shardlake, questionings towards religion, its troubles facing his disability. For this I want to read other novels in the series and see Matthew evolve in London, perhaps in the shallows or in the corridors of power.