A Poisonous Plot, Susanna Gregory
A Poisonous Plot, Susanna Gregory
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A Poisonous Plot
The Twenty First Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew

Author: Susanna Gregory

Narrator: David Thorpe

Unabridged: 13 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2015

Synopsis

In 1358, over a century after its foundation in Cambridge, the college of Michaelhouse is facing a serious shortfall of funds and competition from upstarts rivals such as Zachary Hostel. Their problems are made no easier by the hostility of the town's inhabitants who favour the university moving away to the Fens.

This simmering tension threatens to break into violence when a well-known tradesman is found dead in one of the colleges. Matthew Bartholomew knows he was poisoned but cannot identify the actual substance, never mind the killer. He also worries that other illnesses and deaths may have been caused by the effluent from his sister's dye works.

Torn between loyalties to his kin and to his college, he fears the truth may destroy both his personal and professional life, but he knows he must use his skills as a physician to discover the truth before many more lose their lives entirely.

About Susanna Gregory

Susanna Gregory was a police officer in Leeds before taking up an academic career. She has served as an environmental consultant, worked eighteen field seasons in the polar regions, and has taught comparative anatomy and biological anthropology.She is the creator of the Matthew Bartholomew series of mysteries set in medieval Cambridge and the Thomas Chaloner adventures in Restoration London. She now lives in Wales with her husband, who is also a writer.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Clemens on March 20, 2020

This delightful mystery is the 21st volume of the excellent "Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles" series from the wonderful author, Susanna Gregory. Story-telling from this author is of a superb quality, all the figures who are featuring in this medieval mystery, whether they are real historical or great......more

Goodreads review by Pamela on January 30, 2022

Even though I'm a fan of the series, I have to admit some of them are very much alike. This one basically continued the previous book - more conflict between the Colleges; between the Colleges and the Hostels; and between the University and the town. Ms. Gregory throws an extra wrinkle in this one wh......more

Goodreads review by Michael on November 23, 2017

It’s 1358 in Cambridge, there’s a brisk black-market trade in an expensive white powder called sucura, the townsfolk are up in arms about the scholars (so nothing new there, then), and people are dying in their droves. I enjoyed dipping my toe into the first Susanna Gregory book I’ve read.......more

Goodreads review by Nance Roepke on January 24, 2022

Ho-hum. After 22 books in the series, the stories are getting stale. It is just the same old silly characters running around pretty ineffectually until the end. Susan Gregory does a good job of maintaining the suspense but it is not enough to lead me to give it a higher rating.......more

Goodreads review by Suroor on November 16, 2023

I have been reading Susanna Gregory's Matthew Bartholomew series for years now (rationing them out), and this is one of my favourite crime series. Not least because of the detailed historical research that goes into each one of her books. They paint a vivid picture of Cambridge in the 1300s: the way......more

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