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Shardlake on Disney+ review: Arthur Hughes is magnetic in this Tudor murder mystery

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It has been 20 years since author CJ Sansom sold the screen rights to his first Shardlake murder mystery, Dissolution. Since then, he’s written eight more novels – six of which feature the investigations of the eponymous Tudor lawyer-slash-detective Matthew Shardlake – and it’s only now that his hero has made it to the screen.

Fortunately for fans of the

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