The creator of the highly successful crime series, set in Tudor England, was a private person who ‘preferred to be known through his novels’
CJ Sansom, the bestselling author of Dissolution, Winter in Madrid and Dominion has died aged 71, having been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable cancer that affects bone marrow, in 2012.
His publisher confirmed the news, noting that Sansom died on 27 April, just days before Shardlake, the TV adaptation of Dissolution starring Arthur Hughes and Sean Bean, is released on Disney+ on 1 May.
