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Statements, indictments, bills are circulated, shuffled between judges, prosecutors, the… — Hilary Mantel

Novel · Historical literature

Statements, indictments, bills are circulated, shuffled between judges, prosecutors, the Attorney General, the Lord Chancellor’s office; each step in the process clear, logical, and designed to create corpses by due process of law.

Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies · 2012
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Legal systemLaw
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Historical literature
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Novel
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2012
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Hilary Mantel
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Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. Fourth Estate/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

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