A Masterly Murder

Author : Susanna Gregory
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 074812442X
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Masterly Murder written by Susanna Gregory and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. But Matthew has many patients to divert his attention and Brother Michael, Proctor of the fledgling university, has some suspicious deaths to investigate, although they cannot help but notice that the new Master has commissioned a flurry of building work. Then Runham himself is murdered and, although mourned by none, Matthew and Michael know they have to solve the mystery before any more damage is done to their beloved Michaelhouse.

Author : Susanna Gregory
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Masterly Murder written by Susanna Gregory and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cambridge college of Michaelhouse is in uproar in the November of 1353: Kenyngham the saintly but ageing Master has announced his retirement and with unseemly haste a Michaelhouse Fellow named 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. While Matthew is helping Brother Michael, Proctor of the fledgling university, investigate some suspicious deaths, Runham himself is murdered and, although mourned by none, Matthew and Michael know they have to solve the mystery before any more damage is done to their beloved Michaelhouse."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Susanna Gregory
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 9780751525366
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Masterly Murder written by Susanna Gregory and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aged and saintly master of Michaelhouse is to retire and Runham all but declares himself the new master. Unpopular though he is, his murder spurs Matthew Bartholomew into investigating the crime and several others like it.

Author : Mark Billingham
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 0751577294
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Murder Book written by Mark Billingham and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TOM THORNE IS BACK . . . AND SO IS HIS WORST NIGHTMARE A gripping, grisly read. Mark Billingham is a terrific crime writer' ----- ANTHONY HOROWITZ Tom Thorne has it all. In Nicola Tanner and Phil Hendricks, Thorne has good friends by his side. He finally has a love life worth a damn and is happy in the job to which he has devoted his life... He has everything to lose. Hunting the woman responsible for a series of grisly murders, Thorne has no way of knowing that he will be plunged into a nightmare from which he may never wake. And he'll do anything to keep it. Finally, Thorne's past has caught up with him and a ruinous secret is about to be revealed. If he wants to save himself and his friends, he must do the unthinkable. PRAISE FOR MARK BILLINGHAM 'Mark Billingham is a master of psychology' Ian Rankin 'Fast-paced and twisting' Paula Hawkins 'At the very least it should reach the shortlist of this year's Booker prize' The Times

Author : Susanna Gregory
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 9780751531350
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Order for Death written by Susanna Gregory and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The schism of "nominalism" visits the Cambridge colleges, causing a riot and a murder that will lead Matthew Bartholomew to the doorstep of a priest who is trying to keep the peace.

Author : Susanna Gregory
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 075156267X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sanctuary Murders written by Susanna Gregory and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-fourth chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew. In 1360 Edward III issues a call to arms, as sporadic attacks by the French threaten to turn into a full-blown invasion. In Cambridge, fear of the enemy is magnified by the belief that foreign agents are lurking in the area. Tension runs ever higher as rumours and ignorance fan the flames of suspicion amid preparations for war. And then the first murder occurs - of a French scholar living in the town. At Michaelhouse, Brother Michael is now Master, but his reach of power in the University is under threat by the election of a new Chancellor and his cohort of dubious advisors. Soon, the Colleges begin to squabble amongst themselves, as well as with the town that never wanted a University in the first place. Amidst this atmosphere of swelling distrust, physician Matthew Bartholomew is called upon to investigate mysterious deaths in a nearby hospital. He quickly realises that there is something odd about the inmates and their keepers - something dark and deadly, which seems to be connected to the growing number of murders in the town. Pressure mounts as the University and the town clamour for answers, leading Bartholomew and Michael in a frantic quest for a solution before the powder-keg of animosity in Cambridge is ignited. 'A first-rate treat for mystery lovers' (Historical Novels Review) 'Susanna Gregory has an extraordinary ability to conjure up a strong sense of time and place' (Choice)

Author : Elly Griffiths
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 0358418615
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Postscript Murders written by Elly Griffiths and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2021 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Great Britain in 2020 by Quercus"--Copyright page.

Author : Susanna Gregory
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 0751562629
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Habit of Murder written by Susanna Gregory and published by Sphere. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. They quickly discover that a great many other people in Clare have recently met untimely deaths. These killings, combined with the arrogance Lady de Burgh has shown over the refurbishment of the church and the grotesque behaviour of some of her entourage, have created a dangerous restlessness in the town: an atmosphere intensified when yet more murders occur. One of the victims is a fellow traveller of the Michaelhouse contingent, and Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael feel honour-bound to identify his killer. It is a hunt which takes them deep into Clare's murky foundations and which threatens their own survival as well as that of their beloved college.

Author : Barry Siegel
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429947330
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manifest Injustice written by Barry Siegel and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable legal page-turner, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barry Siegel recounts the dramatic, decades-long saga of Bill Macumber, imprisoned for thirty-eight years for a double homicide he denies committing. In the spring of 1962, a school bus full of students stumbled across a mysterious crime scene on an isolated stretch of Arizona desert: an abandoned car and two bodies. This brutal murder of a young couple bewildered the sheriff 's department of Maricopa County for years. Despite a few promising leads—including several chilling confessions from Ernest Valenzuela, a violent repeat offender—the case went cold. More than a decade later, a clerk in the sheriff 's department, Carol Macumber, came forward to tell police that her estranged husband had confessed to the murders. Though the evidence linking Bill Macumber to the incident was questionable, he was arrested and charged with the crime. During his trial, the judge refused to allow the confession of now-deceased Ernest Valenzuela to be admitted as evidence in part because of the attorney-client privilege. Bill Macumber was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. The case, rife with extraordinary irregularities, attracted the sustained involvement of the Arizona Justice Project, one of the first and most respected of the non-profit groups that represent victims of manifest injustice across the country. With more twists and turns than a Hollywood movie, Macumber's story illuminates startling, upsetting truths about our justice system, which kept a possibly innocent man locked up for almost forty years, and introduces readers to the generations of dedicated lawyers who never stopped working on his behalf, lawyers who ultimately achieved stunning results. With precise journalistic detail, intimate access and masterly storytelling, Barry Siegel will change your understanding of American jurisprudence, police procedure, and what constitutes justice in our country today.

Author : Steven Saylor
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429908610
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Murder on the Appian Way written by Steven Saylor and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torchlight flickers on the elegant marble walls. The sound of a mob echoes in the street. The year is 52 B.C. and the naked body of Publius Clodius is about to be carried through the teaming streets of Rome. Clodius, a rich man turned rabble-rouser, was slain on the most splendid road in the world, the Appian Way. Now Clodius's rival, Milo, is being targeted for revenge and the city teeters on the verge of chaos. An explosive trial will feature the best oration of Cicero and Marc Antony, while Gordianus the Finder has been charged by Pompey the Great himself to look further into the murder. With the Senate House already in ashes, and his own life very much in danger, Gordianus must return to a desrted stretch of the Appian Way - to find the truth that can save a city drunk on power, rent by fear, and filled with the madness and glory of Rome.