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The Unquiet Bones

By: Mel Starr
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
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First in the medieval whodunnit series set in Bampton, Oxfordshire, during the plague years and featuring a newly qualified surgeon

Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk, usually a prelude to taking holy orders. However, feeling no certain calling despite a lively faith, he turns to the profession of surgeon, training in Paris and then hanging out his sign in Oxford.

A local lord asks him to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cesspit. She is identified as the impetuous missing daughter of a local blacksmith, and her young man, whom she had provoked very publicly, is in due course arrested and sentenced at the Oxford assizes.

From there the tale unfolds, with graphic medical procedures, droll medieval wit, misdirection, ambition, romantic distractions, and a consistent underlying Christian compassion.

©2008 Mel Starr (P)2019 by Blackstone Publishing Christian Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Medieval Mystery Middle Ages

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Its a reasobable book, story quite good and goes at a reasonble pace. Not particularly taxing so great for when listening to while doing other things just not while operating machinery because the narrator is soporific.. not so terrible that you cant dtand listening to him but not a real story teller.

pleasant book

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it was fine but there wasn't enough twists and turns for me to keep me on a knife edge.

didn't always keep my attention

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I downloaded this book without thinking whether I would like it it was included so I thought why not? As soon as I heard the reader I was hooked. What a wonderful voice. It matters so much how a book is read and to me Steven Crossley was perfection. The book was excellent and I learned a lot about history. I liked Hugh too. Can’t wait to listen to another one. Do give it a try you may feel as I do!.

Thoroughly enjoyed this book!

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Nice story and by and large good characterisation. But the narrator had not the first clue as to go about the all purpose northern dialect.. Instead of "the house by t' wood" etc we were treated (every painful time) to "the house by 'tut' wood". Very, very grating, hence 3 stars instead of the 4 that the book deserved.

Shame about 'tut' narration....

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the narrator has a relaxing voice and the plot had a few twists, altogether enjoyable.

enjoyable

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