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A Wicked Deed

The Fifth Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle

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A Wicked Deed

By: Susanna Gregory
Narrated by: David Thorpe
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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 eerie 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 trivial 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?

©1999 Susanna Gregory (P)2017 Little Brown Group Crime Fiction Historical Mystery Fiction Crime Village

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Theres' our favourite narrater. All our favourite characters and some fabulously varied new characters.
Unbearable tension and gripping episodes.Humour. Laugh out loud moments of 14th century living. Attention grabbing criminal pathology. A trip out of cambridge into the countriside. Scheming , plot twists and an ending that is a masterful surprise.
This has all the elements of Susanna Gregory's best books

Enjoyable enough to listen to over and over

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This is my first purchase by Susanna Gregory and I wasn't sure about buying it. I am so glad I did, it was brilliant, full of intrigue and lots of weird and wonderful medieval ideas. I really liked Matt Bartholomew, and also several of the other major characters, there were plenty of evil bodies to dislike too.
I will look for another novel by this author, this was very unputdownable!

Superb!

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I have read and thoroughly enjoyed many of the Bartholomew books, and to date I think that this is one of the best. A story of murder, alchemy, superstition, folk tales and an abandoned village. I listened as often as possible and was really sorry when it finished.
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a thrilling and complex read

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The Matthew Bartholomew chronicles just keep getting better and better as they go on. I love the stories, the setting, the flavour of the period and mixture of grim crime and humour and the regualr characters who keep popping up in our 14th Century cross between Morse and Misommer murders. Most of all I love the friendship bewteen Matthew and Brother Michael, two dencent men doing the best they can as they muddle through their sleuthing, with Michael's greedy yet brave and intelligent cleric and Matthew's endearingly naive big heart and quest for truth mingling seemlessly together in the twists and turns of a plot that keeps you guessing. All of this is bound together magnificently by David Thorpe's reading. He really brings it all to life with his wonderful selection of voices which give each character a real personality that, as the books go on, makes one feel they are people we really know and love and that we really are secret listeners in a wonderful world of mystery.

Fabulous

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Complex plot - outside Cambridge this time but plenty of local references. Wonderfully read as always.

Love this series

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