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|author=Susanna Gregory
|title=A Grave Concern: The Twenty Second Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=Chancellor Tynkell was kindly, but ineffectual and everyone was stunned by his murder, not least because it happened very publicly - on top of the church tower, in a high wind with a lot of people watching. Then the murderer disappeared. Some people saw a black cloak being blown along to the marshes outside Cambridge and swore that it was the devil's work, but physician Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael knew better and were determined to prove it. These are not Bartholomew's only problems though: a 'barber surgeon' (free shave or haircut with every treatment) recently arrived from Nottingham is causing problems rather than curing illnesses. His sister is struggling to get her husband's tomb built by the mason she commissioned to do the work: like builders everywhere throughout the ages he keeps moving from job to job and never finishing any. Then Brother Michael is offered a Bishopric - in Rochester.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751549797</amazonuk>
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|author=Wade Graham
|summary=The locals will tell you that there's only one road into and out of Shawhead and over the years they've become accustomed to being cut off by snow or floods. The road passes under a railway line and one day in early February Mac Kelsey's curtain-sider jammed under the bridge. It was Amanda Hibbert who discovered the obstruction as she tried to return home to Shawhead, but there was no driver in the cab. There ''was'' a lot of blood though.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559970</amazonuk>
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