Hi Northernlass

Welcome to the Forum. I enjoyed all the Shardlake books, the 4th on is even better, but if you have read the first 3 you are already hooked and are planning to buy the 4th. I'm not sure what the problem with winter in madrid is, ransome draws his charecters really well and in Madrid, I found I just didn't care about them. I wonder if Winter in Madrid was his first novel and it just didn't hit the mark.

Have a good day