I enjoyed this historical mystery, set in medieval Cambridge, but it did suffer from two problems. The plot was a little too twisty to be believable, and the villain had a bad case of "James Bond movie villain talking disease." He had our heroes cornered (with a guy with a crossbow fixed on them),...
bookshelves: one-penny-wonder, paper-read, medieval5c-16c, britain-england, mystery-thriller, autumn-2011, bedside, historical-fiction Read from September 09 to 13, 2011 With flister Susanna reading #1 A Plague on Both Your Houses, I felt a yen for some more Matthew Bartholomew.First line - ISOBE...
bookshelves: historical-fiction, mystery-thriller Read in January, 2008 So this has been billed as five short stories but to me it has been one interesting story outlining the history of one grey splinter down the ages and very enjoyable it was too. Especially that snortable fifth segment.Wonder...
I always enjoy [a:Susanna Gregory|37774|Susanna Gregory|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1316288895p2/37774.jpg]’s Matthew Bartholomew mysteries. Like visiting friends, I knew what to expect from [b:A Wicked Deed|211287|A Wicked Deed (Matthew Bartholomew, #5)|Susanna Gregory|http://d202m...
rosado> walkies!Susanna GregoryKaren MaitlandPhilip GoodenIan MorsonBernard KnightEy-up! This looks scrumptious4* The Tainted Relic4* The Sword of Shame3* House of Shadows3* The Lost Prophecies2* King Arthur's Bones#6 MISSING FILE oh noes!3* Hill of Bones(less)3* The First Murder
This shows promise. I have a sneaking suspicion that if I knew more about Cambridge and how it works that I would understand if I had attended either Oxford or Cambridge but honestly I sometimes felt a little lost occasionally in the discussion of houses and how the colleges came to be. Our hero, ...
slow build but after a while becomes very interesting, the twists are very interesting but it possibly could have done with a bit of an edit. Matthew Bartholomew's ex-fiancee returns with her husband who are on pilgrimage, people around her keep dying, including her husband. Who is behind it all? A...
Opening: Geraint watched the lizard basking in the sun on the tiled floor.#21 TBR Busting 2013Had rather run out of steam on this series but lo! and behold Maitland writes a segment, and I can't let that go unsavoured...They keep running up that hill!Prologue by Philip Gooden - excellent Arthurian ...
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