He passed away on April 27 after being diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2012.
Sansoms publisher, Pan Macmillan, announced his death yesterday on X and its website.
Rejt called Sansom an intensely private person who always wished to be published quietly and without fanfare.
CJ SansomPan Macmillan
He worked tirelessly on each book, never wanting to disappoint a single reader, she continued.
He was reportedly working on an eighth titledRatcliffbefore he died.
His death came just days before the release of the TV adaptation ofShardlakeon Disney+.
Lee said that Sansom brilliantly conjures what it was like to live in Tudor England.
