Matthew Bartholomew Series by Susanna Gregory, David Thorpe, Andrew Wincott

4.11 · 261 ratings
  • A Plague on Both Your Houses (Matthew Bartholomew #1)
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    A Plague on Both Your Houses (Matthew Bartholomew #1)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1996

    In the tradition of Ellis Peters, A Plague on Both Your Houses introduces the physician Matthew Bartholomew, whose unorthodox but effective treatment of his patients frequently draws accusations of heresy from his more traditional colleagues. Besides his practice, Bartholomew is teacher of Medicine at Michaelhouse, part of the fledgling University of Cambridge... more

  • An Unholy Alliance (Matthew Bartholomew #2)
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    An Unholy Alliance (Matthew Bartholomew #2)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1996

    Introduces medieval monk, Cambridge physician, and forensic sleuth Matthew Bartholomew and his boon companion, the Falstaffian Brother Michael, who try to sort out a conspiracy involving devil worship, the Black Death, and a missing chancellor. Reprint. PW.

  • A Bone of Contention (Matthew Bartholomew #3)
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    A Bone of Contention (Matthew Bartholomew #3)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1997

    Cambridge, 1392. Matthew Bartholomew, physician to Michaelhouse College, is called to examine some mysterious bones found in the King's Ditch. Next day he is called to the Ditch again: a student has been found dead there. Meanwhile, there is unrest in the town, and the strange disappearance of Dominica, former lover of the dead student and daughter of Waterstone, the well-known Principal of a Cambridge student hostel... more

  • A Deadly Brew (Matthew Bartholomew #4)
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    A Deadly Brew (Matthew Bartholomew #4)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 1998

    The fourth chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew continues the adventures of the 14th century Cambridge physician when he is called to attend to two deaths from some poisoned wine. The opening of a new and very well-endowed college has created petty in-fighting amongst the academics as new appointments are made. The winter and spring have been appallingly wet, there is a fever outbreak amongst the poorer townspeople and the country is not yet fully recovered from the aftermath of the plague... more

  • A Wicked Deed (Matthew Bartholomew #5)
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    A Wicked Deed (Matthew Bartholomew #5)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1999

    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 eery village abandoned after the recent plague and find a man barely alive on a gibbet - so they reach their destination with some relief... more

  • A Masterly Murder (Matthew Bartholomew #6)
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    A Masterly Murder (Matthew Bartholomew #6)

    Susanna Gregory, David Thorpe

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2000

    Michaelhouse is in uproar: Kenyngham the saintly but ageing Master has announced his retirement and with unseemly haste Runham arranges his own ?election? as his successor. Within days he has dismissed several members of staff, including the redoubtable laundress Agatha, and is making life so unpleasant for the scholars that even Matthew Bartholomew believes his future as physician and teacher at the college is untenable... more

  • An Order for Death (Matthew Bartholomew #7)
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    An Order for Death (Matthew Bartholomew #7)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings · published 2001

    Believers in the theory of nominalism have set some Cambridge colleges at the throats of those who believe them to be heretics and Michael, the Senior Proctor, has his work cut out to keep the peace... more

  • A Summer of Discontent (Matthew Bartholomew #8)
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    A Summer of Discontent (Matthew Bartholomew #8)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2002

    Matthew Bartholomew jumps at the chance to travel to Ely with Brother Michael, as it will give him a unique opportunity to study in the richly stocked library of the Benedictine priory. Michael has been summoned to the city by his bishop, but it isn't until they arrive that they discover the reason - the bishop has been accused of murder. The charge seems ludicrous, but Michael takes the investigation seriously and energetically sets about his task... more

  • A Killer in Winter (Matthew Bartholomew #9)
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    A Killer in Winter (Matthew Bartholomew #9)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings · published 2003

    Cambridge 1354. Christmas approaches and the town is gripped by the worst blizzards in living memory. As the physician, Matthew Bartholomew, struggles to help the poorer citizens cope with freezing temperatures, his colleagues prepare for the festivities. The weather has trapped many travellers in the town, including Matthew's erstwhile love, Philippa... more

  • The Hand of Justice (Matthew Bartholomew #10)
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    The Hand of Justice (Matthew Bartholomew #10)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings · published 2004

    In Cambridge 1355 the colleges of the fledgling university are as much at odds with each other as they are with the ordinary townfolk. This tension has recently been heightened by the return of two well-born murderers after receiving the King's pardon, showing no remorse but ready to confront those who helped convict them. And in the midst of this Bartholomew the physician is called to the local mill to examine two corpses... more

  • The Mark of a Murderer (Matthew Bartholomew #11)
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    The Mark of a Murderer (Matthew Bartholomew #11)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2005

    On St Scholastica's Day in February 1355, Oxford explodes in one of the most serious riots of its turbulent history. Fearing for their lives, the scholars flee the city, and some choose the University at Cambridge as their temporary refuge. However, they don't remain safe for long. Within hours of their arrival, the first of their number dies, followed quickly by a second... more

  • The Tarnished Chalice (Matthew Bartholomew #12)
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    The Tarnished Chalice (Matthew Bartholomew #12)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings · published 2006

    In 1356, on a bitter winter evening, Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael arrive in Lincoln—Michael to accept an honor from the cathedral, and Bartholomew to look for the woman he wants to wed. It is not long before they learn that the friary in which they are staying is not the safe haven they imagine—one guest has already been murdered. It emerges that the dead man was holding the Hugh Chalice, a Lincoln relic with a curiously bloody history... more

  • To Kill or Cure: The Thirteenth Chronicle Of Matthew Bartholomew (Matthew Bartholomew #13)
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    To Kill or Cure: The Thirteenth Chronicle Of Matthew Bartholomew (Matthew Bartholomew #13)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2008

    Cambridge University is in dire financial straits: the town's landlords are demanding an extortionate rent rise for the students' hostels and the plague years have left the colleges with scant resources. Tension between town and gown is at boiling point and soon explodes into violence and death. Into this maelstrom comes a charismatic physician whose healing methods owe more to magic than medicine but his success threatens Matthew Bartholomew's professional reputation, and his life ???

  • The Devil's Disciples: The Fourteenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew (Matthew Bartholomew #14)
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    The Devil's Disciples: The Fourteenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew (Matthew Bartholomew #14)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2008

    Rumours of plague threaten Cambridge again, ten years after the Black Death had almost laid waste to the town. Neither the church nor its priests had defended people from the disease and now they turn elsewhere for protection, to pagan ritual and magical potions. It is a ripe atmosphere to be exploited by the mysterious 'Sorcerer', an anonymous magician whose increasing influence seems certain to oust both civil and church leaders from power... more

  • A Vein of Deceit (Matthew Bartholomew #15)
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    A Vein of Deceit (Matthew Bartholomew #15)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2009

    Despite a new influx of well-heeled students, Michaelhouse has suffered from an acute lack of funds that has made itself manifest in a lack of decent provisions. It is only when the Brother in charge of the account books dies unexpectedly that an explanation is revealed: large amounts of money had been paid for goods the college never received. Although shocked by this evidence of fraud, Matthew Bartholomew is more concerned with the disappearance of a quantity of pennyroyal from his herbarium... more

  • Mystery in the Minster (Matthew Bartholomew #17)
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    Mystery in the Minster (Matthew Bartholomew #17)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2011

    The 17th episode in the popular Cambridge series of medieval mysteries, featuring the physician-cum-sleuth, Matthew Bartholomew   In 1358 the fledging college of Michaelhouse in Cambridge is in need of extra funds. A legacy from the Archbishop of York of a parish close to that city promises a welcome source of income. However, there has been another claim to its ownership and it seems the only way to settle the dispute is for a deputation from Michaelhouse to travel north... more

  • The Lost Abbot (Matthew Bartholomew #19)
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    The Lost Abbot (Matthew Bartholomew #19)

    Susanna Gregory, Andrew Wincott

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2013

    Matthew Bartholomew doesn't want to travel to Peterborough, but he has caused a scandal in Cambridge, so has no choice. He is one of a party of Bishop's Commissioners, charged to discover what happened to Peterborough's abbot, who has disappeared. When the Commissioners arrive, they find the town in turmoil. A rabble-rouser is encouraging the poor to rise up, the abbey is at war with a powerful goldsmith, and there are bitter rivalries between competing shrines... more

  • Death of a Scholar: The Twentieth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew (Matthew Bartholomew #20)
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    Death of a Scholar: The Twentieth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew (Matthew Bartholomew #20)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings · published 2014

    The University should have been delighted when an influential courtier decides to found a new College in Cambridge, but the older Colleges are jealous of the newcomer's ostentatious wealth, and the townsfolk bitterly resent yet another academic foundation thrust into their midst... more

  • A Poisonous Plot: The Twenty First Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew (Matthew Bartholomew #21)
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    A Poisonous Plot: The Twenty First Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew (Matthew Bartholomew #21)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2015

    In 1358, over a century after its foundation in Cambridge, the college of Michaelhouse is facing a serious shortfall of funds and competition from upstarts rivals such as Zachary Hostel. Their problems are made no easier by the hostility of the town's inhabitants who favour the university moving away to the Fens.This simmering tension threatens to break into violence when a well-known tradesman is found dead in one of the colleges... more

  • A Grave Concern (Matthew Bartholomew #22)
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    A Grave Concern (Matthew Bartholomew #22)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2016

    Identifying the murderer of the Chancellor of the University is not the only challenge facing physician Matthew Bartholomew. Many of his patients have been made worse by the ministrations of a 'surgeon' recently arrived from Nottingham, his sister is being rooked by the mason she has commissioned to build her husband's tomb, and his friend, Brother Michael, has been offered a Bishopric which will cause him to leave Cambridge... more

  • The Habit of Murder (Matthew Bartholomew #23)
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    The Habit of Murder (Matthew Bartholomew #23)

    Susanna Gregory

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2017

    In 1360 a deputation from Cambridge ventures to the Suffolk town of Clare in the hope that the wealthy Elizabeth de Burgh has left a legacy to Michaelhouse. Yet when they arrive they discover that the report of her death is false and that the college seems destined for bankruptcy.Determined to see if some of its well-heeled citizens can be persuaded to sponsor Michaelhouse, Matthew Bartholomew, Brother Michael and Master Langelee become enmeshed in the town's politics... more

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