Based on the internationally acclaimed Tudor murder mystery novels by CJ Sansom, the fourpart drama is set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries 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 allpowerful righthand man to Henry VIII 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 goodlooking character who may be Cromwell’s spy