It's taken me quite a bit longer to get to the finishing line in Dark Fire than I expected, and I'm still not quite there yet - with some 40 pages to go. Two reasons for this: working from home has kept me pretty busy; and I've been enjoying Sansom's novel so much that I've been deliberately slowing down my reading - mainly by reading other stuff at the same time.
Brilliant plotting and a wonderful sense of atmosphere make this a very special read, but the tale's genuine sense of the nature of evil and its relationship with a religious view of life and its meaning takes the book to a very high level. I wouldn't claim this to be in Wolf Hall territory (and how am I going to be able to resist the final volume of Mantel's Cromwellian trilogy at this point in time?) but it occupies the very height of what genre fiction can achieve.
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