Lawyer-detective Matthew Shardlake returns in the fifth of C J Sansom's Tudor mysteries. At Hoyland, there’s growing rivalry between Sir Nicholas Hobbey’s young son David and his ward Hugh Curteys. Meanwhile Shardlake travels to nearby Rolfswood to find out more about the mysterious past of Ellen Fettiplace, the Bedlam inmate he befriended in the course of another case two years previously.

Justin Salinger and Bryan Dick return as Matthew Shardlake and Jack Barak in Colin MacDonald's atmospheric dramatisation of the best-selling novel by C J Sansom.

Matthew Shardlake ..... Justin Salinger
Jack Barak ..... Bryan Dick
Hugh Curteys ..... Will Howard
David Hobbey ..... Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong
Rev Seckford ..... Neil McCaul
Nicholas Hobbey ..... David Seddon
Abigail Hobbey ..... Isabella Inchbald
Other parts played by members of the cast.

Writer ..... C J Sansom
Dramatist ..... Colin MacDonald
Director ..... David Jackson Young

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018. Show less