Murder By The Book, Susanna Gregory
Murder By The Book, Susanna Gregory
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Murder By The Book
The Eighteenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew

Author: Susanna Gregory

Narrator: David Thorpe

Unabridged: 14 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/24/2017

Synopsis

It is drawing near to the end of term, and the University at Cambridge is in turmoil over the opening of a new Common Library. There is an attack on one of the masters at a meeting to discuss the matter, and a body is found floating in the pond in the library's garden on the eve of its opening.

Meanwhile, there are rumours of a large force of dangerous smugglers lurking in the Fens. Aided by their friend Sheriff Tulyet, Bartholomew and Michael must thwart the invaders before the Feast of Corpus Christi the following week. To fail might mean the destruction of the town...

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 February 22, 2020

This exciting murder mystery is the 18th volume of the formidable "Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles" series from the author, Susanna Gregory. As usual at the beginning of the book you'll find a well-drawn map of Cambridge, England, in the AD 1350s, where this series has returned to after a dangerous an......more

Goodreads review by Shirley on April 16, 2014

Murder and mayhem Susanna Gregory style. This addition to the Matthew Bartholomew series is good, but I thought it not quite as good as others in this series. There are even more deaths than usual in this book, and Matthew and Michael are hard-pressed to keep up with the bodies that keep turning up......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on June 28, 2019

Medieval Cambridge is the setting of this excellent series. The protagonist is still searching for his lost love, as their paths cross and recross in this well plotted mystery. The challenge of limiting nefarious doings of various kinds of felonious bad guys during the Medieval times of political ch......more

Goodreads review by Laura Jane on February 08, 2014

The scholars, clerics and townsfolk of 14th century Cambridge are usually at each other's throats and this time it is the Colleges and the hostels that are bitterly divided about the plans for a new Central Library to be funded by a wealthy local merchant. As a result, Dr Matthew Bartholemew And Sen......more

Goodreads review by Pamela on January 24, 2022

The events in this book occur in the aftermath of the Battle of Poitiers at which Edward III and the English army defeat the French. The French were overconfident, certain they outnumbered the English and could not lose. The French king and a number of his nobles were taken to England and held for r......more

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