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 Grundisburgh,Suffolk. One of his companions,Unwin,an unworldly scholar,is to be installed as priest. When they arrive,they are immediately thrust into the machinations of local boundary disputes between three landowners,but 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
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Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9780751569391Number of pages: 512Weight: 350 gDimensions: 198 x 122 x 33 mm
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(A) richly imagined world of colourful medieval society and irresistible monkish sleuthing - Good Book Guide
Susanna Gregory writes with fluency and energy,avoids archaic vocabulary,despite her 14th-century setting and,having had a career as an academic,bases the stories in this enjoyable series on careful research - Literary ReviewA first-rate treat for mystery lovers - Historical Novels ReviewSusanna Gregory has an extraordinary ability to conjure up a strong sense of time and place - Choice
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