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text 2014-03-08 02:30
February Roundup
Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris - Eric Jager
Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings - Alison Weir
Flying Too High - Kerry Greenwood
A Bone of Contention - Susanna Gregory
Dying in the Wool - Frances Brody

The best book: Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris, by Eric Jager.

 

Nothing under three stars. 

 

A good reading month.

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review 2014-02-08 22:50
A Bone of Contention, by Susanna Gregory
A Bone of Contention - Susanna Gregory

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), and just blathered on and on and on about how clever he was.  (Three guesses as to if he was caught, and the first two don't count.)

 

Aside from that, it was a nice immersion in 14th century Cambridge, a world of town vs. gown, where they dig saint's relics from the town sewer/drainage ditch/protective moat, and books are rare commodities indeed.

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review 2013-10-16 00:37
An Unholy Alliance (Matthew Bartholomew, #2) by Susanna Gregory
An Unholy Alliance - Susanna Gregory

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 - ISOBEL WATKINS GLANCED FEARFULLY BEHIND HER for at least the fourth time since leaving the home of the wealthy merchant on Milne Street.

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review 2013-09-15 00:00
A Wicked Deed - Susanna Gregory 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://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1332327020s/211287.jpg|1370928] but I love the characters Matthew Bartholomew, a teaching physician, and Brother Michael both members of the College of Michaelhouse at the University of Cambridge. This is a tale of the scholars of Michaelhouse traveling to the village Grudisburh in Suffolk to accept the gift of a parish church. I know that Ms. Gregory’s writing can get a bit repetitive, well maybe a lot repetitive and I might have figured out the” who” before the end but I love the pictures she paints. Why both Michael and Matthew kept making excuses against murder with all the dead people in such a small village was beyond me and a bit annoying. This was not one of my favorite Matthew Bartholomew tales but it won’t stop me from moving on to number 6 in the series when I feel a “history mystery” attack coming on.
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review 2013-07-21 20:58
A Killer in Winter (Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles)
A Killer in Winter - Susanna Gregory 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? And why?
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