Readers are made privy to the court intrigues of Thomas Cromwell and King Henry VIII, eavesdrop on women arguing in a market stall, and inhale the stench of London streets.
Sansom describes 16th-century events in the crisply realistic style of someone watching them transpire right outside his window.
Mr. Sansom, who earned a Ph.D. in history and a law degree before turning to writing in his late 40s, quickly becoming one of Britain's most popular historical novelists, died of cancer in hospice care on April 27. He was 71.
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