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The Pudding Lane Plot (due August 2022).

Now, he works for the Earl of Clarendon in the England of Stuart King Charles II and continues his role as a spy while trying to stay safe.įor more details, go to the Thomas Chaloner reading order. Thomas Chaloner was a spy for Spymaster General John Thurloe in Cromwell’s England. For more details, go to the Matthew Bartholomew reading order. He is a master at the College of Michaelhouse at the University of Cambridge, where he teaches medicine when he is not busy investigating murders. Matthew Bartholomew is an unorthodox physician living in fourteenth-century Cambridge.

Susanna Gregory also co-wrote books with her husband, Beau Riffenburgh, under the pseudonym Simon Beaufort. Aside from this series, she is also known for her historical mysteries featuring Thomas Chaloner and being a member of the Medieval Murderers – a group of writers who gave talks and presentations at literary festivals and wrote books together. She published her first novel, A Plague on Both Your Houses, also the first in the Matthew Bartholomew series in 1996 and has never stopped since. at the University of Cambridge and becoming a Research Fellow at the Scott Polar Research Institute. She worked for a short time as a police officer in Yorkshire before earning her Ph.D. Susanna Gregory is a pseudonym for Elizabeth Cruwys, writer of medieval murder mysteries, Restoration whodunits, and other historical crime fiction. The book may work reasonably well as a taster to try out the different authors and see which you want to try other books by.Affiliate disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases from Amazon.Īll of Susanna Gregory’s Books! Who is Susanna Gregory? I was not sufficiently involved to care about whodunit or why.

It was perhaps easier with the mysteries involving characters I have read about previously, but even these parts of the book were not entirely successful, with no room for any great depth of mystery or character development. This story of a cursed fragment of the True Cross stolen in the sack of Jerusalem is effectively five short mysteries linked by the relic.Īlthough I have read historical mysteries by two of the authors previously I found that the format made it difficult to get into the book, and I made several attempts before I was able to finish the book. The Medieval Murderers are Mike Jecks, Susanna Gregory, Bernard Knight, Ian Morson and Philip Gooden. Medieval Murderers, The - 'The Tainted Relic' Review - The Tainted Relic by The Medieval Murderers