A Wicked Deed, Susanna Gregory
A Wicked Deed, Susanna Gregory
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A Wicked Deed
The Fifth Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle

Author: Susanna Gregory

Narrator: David Thorpe

Unabridged: 17 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/27/2017

Synopsis

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?

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 August 27, 2019

This delightful mystery is the 5th volume of the wonderful "Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles" from the very fine author, Susanna Gregory. This story is originally from 1999, but still reading as fresh now as it was then. At the beginning of the book you'll notice a map of Grundisburgh, Suffolk, England......more

Goodreads review by Pamela on December 11, 2021

Michaelhouse is being given the living of the parish church in Grundisbrugh, so a contingent from the University has traveled to the village to draw up the formal document called an advowson. Of course, Bartholomew’s penchant for dead bodies, particularly murdered ones, follows him into the Suffolk......more

Goodreads review by Ruhani on February 10, 2024

This is a medieval mystery set in Suffolk during 1353. Dr Matthew Bartholomew and fellow scholars from Michaelhouse, Cambridge travels to Grundisburgh, still recovering from the effects of the black death, to accept a gift of a parish. What follows is rural politics and power struggles, superstition......more

Goodreads review by Bookish Ally on July 29, 2021

1353, what a time in history. I have a penchant for historical fiction set during this time because of the rich superstition and culture that arose from the (then morally questionable) church and society’s the time during and just following the Black Death . Susanna Gregory’s wonderful series includ......more

Goodreads review by Melinda on May 14, 2024

Reading this series is like stepping back in time and getting a good long view of this time period. Great writing, great characters, humour, boorishness, intrigue....good stuff.......more

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