Favourite Tudor Era Novels

[MLE (Emily Cotton)]

Since this was first posted, I have read the entire Shardlake series by C.J. Sansom, and they are going on my permanent favorite list. In order, they are Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign, Revelation, Heartstone, and Lamentation. Matthew Shardlake, a hunchbacked lawyer, starts as an agent for Thomas Cromwell and, despite his desire for a quiet life, finds himself constantly mixed up with serious religious and political issues of the day, with plenty of very accurate pictures of life under Henry VIII in his later, and more deranged, years.

[Madeleine]

I can second that MLE, I've only read the first four so far, but they are great books, written from a slightly different view-point to the usual Tudor stuff, with the added crime element too. Dark Fire is my favourite.