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During the dissolution of the monasteries in the Tudor era, Matthew Shardlake is sent by Thomas Cromwell to investigate the death of a commissioner in a remote town of Scarnsea.

A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.

A dramatization of Alonso de Ercilla's 16th-century epic poem about the Spanish conquest of Chile.

A friend of MacGyver's is killed in Peru looking for a mythical treasure. MacGyver helps his daughter to continue her father's quest.

THE PROMISED LAND: Inés, Valdivia and the rest of the Spanish expedition finally leave for Chile. But to reach the 'Promised Land' they will first have to cross the Atacama desert, an extensive sandy terrain that threatens to squeeze their resistance capacity to the maximum: not only will they have to face the inclemency of the area, but before them the threat of the Mapuche will also loom.

BLOOD AND FIRE: Six months have passed since the Spanish expedition led by Valdivia arrived in Chile and founded the city of Santiago de Nueva Extremadura. Since then, Valdivia has been completely dedicated to the conquest of the country, while Inés spends her days in the city alone and bored if it weren't for the moments she spends with Rodrigo de Quiroga, Valdivia's officer and right-hand man.

DEATH GIVES MORE LIFE WHEN LESS FEARED: Christmas arrives in Cuzco, but it seems that there will be no time for peace and recollection since an Almagrier is conspiring to rise up against the Pizarro regime and threatens to blow everything up. Meanwhile, Valdivia and De la Hoz dispute the right of conquest over Chile and challenge each other to see who will be able to get there first.

Knocking someone out isn't as easy as in the movies. Physically hitting someone requires multiple blows or a very precise blow with just the right amount of force to fall between being ineffectual and causing death. Basically the 'dosage' of the blow has to be just right which is also true of knock out, injected and orally administered drugs. And drugs can take quite some time to take effect.

Henry is proud of Catherine, his beautiful, vivacious seventeen year old wife, who buys silence from an old friend by making her a member of the court.

Cromwell's marital diplomacy brings Princess Anne of Cleves to Henry's court. Will the alliance create a Protestant superpower in northern Europe, or has Cromwell's luck run out?

Cromwell is stripped of his titles and brought to the Tower of London on a charge of treason. He has no friends to speak for him but plenty of enemies among his prosecutors.