<P> The series' main character is the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake, who is assisted in his adventures by Mark Poer and then Jack Barak . Shardlake works on commission initially from Thomas Cromwell in Dissolution and Dark Fire, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in Sovereign and Revelation and Queen Catherine Parr in Heartstone and Lamentation . </P> <P> Sansom has said that he plans to write further Shardlake novels taking the lawyer into the reign of Elizabeth I . </P> <Table> Matthew Shardlake series <Tr> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Year </Th> <Th> Publisher </Th> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Th> Awards </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Dissolution </Td> <Td> 2003 </Td> <Td> London: Macmillan </Td> <Td> 1 - 4050 - 0542 - 4 </Td> <Td> Nominated for the 2003 Crime Writers' Association (CWA) John Creasey Memorial Dagger, for first books by previously unpublished writers . It was also nominated for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger in the same year . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Dark Fire </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> London: Macmillan </Td> <Td> 1 - 4050 - 0544 - 0 </Td> <Td> Awarded the Crime Writers' Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger award in 2005 . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Sovereign </Td> <Td> 2006 </Td> <Td> London: Macmillan </Td> <Td> 0 - 3304 - 3608 - 2 </Td> <Td_colspan="1"> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Revelation </Td> <Td> 2008 </Td> <Td> London: Macmillan </Td> <Td> 0 - 3304 - 4710 - 6 </Td> <Td> Shortlisted for the Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year 2009 and the Crime Writers Association Ellis Peters Historical Dagger in 2008 . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Heartstone </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> London: Mantle </Td> <Td> 1 - 4050 - 9273 - 4 </Td> <Td> Shortlisted for the 2011 Walter Scott Prize </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <P> Lamentation </P> </Td> <Td> 2014 </Td> <Td> London: Mantle </Td> <Td> 978 - 1447260257 </Td> <Td_colspan="1"> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Year </Th> <Th> Publisher </Th> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Th> Awards </Th> </Tr>

Which is the first book in the shardlake series