Based on the first of C.J. Sansom's Tudor-era murder mystery novels, 'Shardlake,' premiering Wednesday on Hulu, follows a lawyer turned reluctant detective.
Variation on a theme is the essence of detective fiction, dressing the old beloved tropes in new clothes. Pick any job — plumber, rodeo clown, TV critic — add 'detective' and you've got your main character. Choose a date, in history or the future, like you're the Doctor piloting the TARDIS, and you have your setting. Somebody gets murdered, someone solves it. Elementary.
The monks who terrify him come with a variety of agendas, some self-serving, some religious; some are sweet, some are violent, but all are understandably resistant to seeing their home torn down and livelihood scotched.
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