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'A.M. Homes's new novel is weird and warm and wise and really rather wonderful. There's some kind of magic at work ... Inexplicably addictive' Mark Haddon **'This brave story of a lost man's reconnection with the world could become a generational touchstone, like Catch 22, The monkey Wrench Gang or The Catcher in the Rye' Stephen King **'A scarily human, kind, and alarming epic of second chances. If Oprah went insane, this might be her favourite book' John Waters
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The latest episode in the popular series of mediaevel mysteries, featuring the physician-cum-sleuth, Matthew Bartholomew.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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This is the 13th in the series. Matthew and Brother Michael continue their crime solving escapades. This time a charlatan 'healer' comes into town and performs some wonderful 'miracles', managing to turn the town against its traditional practitioners, including Matthew Bartholomew and creates self doubt in Bartholomew.
Simultaneously, a leading medical practioner is murdered, their are tensions in town over a rent war, with landlords wanting to charge the university more and the university unwilling to pay. An elderly scholar dies. A note claims it was murder. Bartholomew claims it was natural. Could he be wrong?
This really is an excellent series. By now Matthew, Brother Michael and the rest of the characters are like old friends but there are still enough surprises to keep the reader's interest.
If you have enjoyed the series so far, I don't think this will disappoint. If you are new, each novel is stand alone but does refer back to previous episodes. You have to start somewhere!
Now if only Matilde came back...
Simultaneously, a leading medical practioner is murdered, their are tensions in town over a rent war, with landlords wanting to charge the university more and the university unwilling to pay. An elderly scholar dies. A note claims it was murder. Bartholomew claims it was natural. Could he be wrong?
This really is an excellent series. By now Matthew, Brother Michael and the rest of the characters are like old friends but there are still enough surprises to keep the reader's interest.
If you have enjoyed the series so far, I don't think this will disappoint. If you are new, each novel is stand alone but does refer back to previous episodes. You have to start somewhere!
Now if only Matilde came back...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Susanna Gregory is a prolific writer, and luckily so for all lovers of historical detectives! Over the years Matthew Bartholomew has become one of my favorite detectives: an amateur really (as by training he's really a doctor) but one who has his wits about him, gentle but persistent, and a true friend. But in 'To kill or cure' he's hard pressed to stay as gentle as he usually is.
A certain Richard Arderne has arrived in Cambridge, and although it's obvious to Matthew that he is nothing but a fraud, and a dangerous one at that, the man soon has the entire city believing in his magical powers of curing the sick and even raising the dead. Before long Matthew finds himself criticized by patients he's been treating for years, often for free. To make matters worse, there's soon an abundance of suspicious deaths: a Fellow of another college is killed by a crossbow-bolt, a pot-boy from one of the alehouses soon shares his fate, a student of Matthew's college is stabbed and disappears without a trace, Matthew's colleague Kenyngham suddenly dies (poisoned?), ... So Matthew must turn detective again and come to the aid of his trusted friend Michael before the whole town erupts in violence.
As with the previous twelve installments in the Bartholomew-series, I very much enjoyed this one. Fourteenth century Cambridge is excellently depicted, and as ever Gregory weaves a web of ever more intricate clues to baffle both Matthew and us. A very worthwhile and entertaining read, the only downside of which is that I was unable to put it down for long (to the distress of my wife and kids, I must confess).
A certain Richard Arderne has arrived in Cambridge, and although it's obvious to Matthew that he is nothing but a fraud, and a dangerous one at that, the man soon has the entire city believing in his magical powers of curing the sick and even raising the dead. Before long Matthew finds himself criticized by patients he's been treating for years, often for free. To make matters worse, there's soon an abundance of suspicious deaths: a Fellow of another college is killed by a crossbow-bolt, a pot-boy from one of the alehouses soon shares his fate, a student of Matthew's college is stabbed and disappears without a trace, Matthew's colleague Kenyngham suddenly dies (poisoned?), ... So Matthew must turn detective again and come to the aid of his trusted friend Michael before the whole town erupts in violence.
As with the previous twelve installments in the Bartholomew-series, I very much enjoyed this one. Fourteenth century Cambridge is excellently depicted, and as ever Gregory weaves a web of ever more intricate clues to baffle both Matthew and us. A very worthwhile and entertaining read, the only downside of which is that I was unable to put it down for long (to the distress of my wife and kids, I must confess).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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My first encounter with Mathew Bartholomew was on holiday in Cornwall The book was in with a pile on a shelf in our holiday flat.It was a revalation to someone who hadn't touched a book in years it surprised me that on my return home I had to look for more from this Author and have now read all the Mathew Bartholomew books and I have pre ordered the latest due out in July. They are cronological so I recommend they be read in order although each individual book is a comlete adventure with start middle and end
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To kill or cure
This was the last book I needed to read in Susanna Gregorys Matthew Bartholomew series excellent book. Can't wait for her new book later in the year
Published 3 months ago by jenny
historic whodunit
Another Gregory whodunit, if you have read any Gregory you will know that you don't get the answer until the end. A triller til the end.
Published 24 months ago by Mr. Stephen J. Jackson
More Laurel and Hardy than Dalziel and Pascoe
I wonder why I persevere with this series, this is the 12th I have read and since the first 4 or five they have been generally disappointing and repetitive. Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2008 by L. Murphy
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