Author: Susanna Gregory Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery
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ISBNs: 9780751525441 0751525448 |
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Matthew Bartholomew, doctor of medicine and fellow of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, is travelling with a party from the college to accept the gift of the living of a parish in Suffolk. One of his companions, Unwin, an unworldly scholar, is to be installed as priest. Their journey is not without incident - they are chased by footpads, pass through an eery village abandoned after the recent plague and find a man barely alive on a gibbet - so they reach their destination with some relief. But their thoughts of recovering while enjoying the local Pentecostal Fair are soon curtailed, as they are immediately thrust into the machinations of local boundary disputes between three landowners. Then all such squabbles seem mere trivia when Unwin is murdered in the very church which was to have been his home. While trying to investigate a possible motive for his killing, Bartholomew discovers that this is not the first unnatural death in the village - deaths which everyone has put down to the curse of the plague dead village. He is of too practical a mind to believe the superstitions, but is he wily enough to work out the real motive behind the murders and who will gain from them?
This book is part of the "Matthew Bartholomew" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "A Grave Concern" First published in 2016 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "To Kill or Cure" First published in 2008 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Hand of Justice" First published in 2004 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Killer in Winter" First published in 2003 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "An Order for Death" First published in 2001 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Masterly Murder" First published in 2000 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Deadly Brew" First published in 1998 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Bone of Contention" First published in 1997 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "An Unholy Alliance" First published in 1996 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Lost Abbot" Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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