Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon Chronicles - Mel Starr torrent

Category: Anthology, Historical Fiction, Mystery
Language: English
Keywords: Hugh De Singleton Medieval Mystery Surgeon Chronicles

Written by Mel Starr
Read by Steven Crossley, Tim Bruce
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

The Unquiet Bones Publisher’s Summary
First in the medieval whodunnit series set in Bampton, Oxfordshire, during the plague years and featuring a newly qualified surgeon

Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk, usually a prelude to taking holy orders. However, feeling no certain calling despite a lively faith, he turns to the profession of surgeon, training in Paris and then hanging out his sign in Oxford.

A local lord asks him to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cesspit. She is identified as the impetuous missing daughter of a local blacksmith, and her young man, whom she had provoked very publicly, is in due course arrested and sentenced at the Oxford assizes.

From there the tale unfolds, with graphic medical procedures, droll medieval wit, misdirection, ambition, romantic distractions, and a consistent underlying Christian compassion.

©2008 Mel Starr (P)2019 by Blackstone Publishing

1 The Unquiet Bones (2008)
2 A Corpse at St Andrew’s Chapel (2009)
3 A Trail of Ink (2010)
4 Unhallowed Ground (2011)
5 The Tainted Coin (2012)
6 Rest Not in Peace (2013)
7 The Abbot’s Agreement (2014)
8 Ashes to Ashes (2015)
9 Lucifer’s Harvest (2016)
10 Deeds of Darkness (2017)
11 Prince Edward’s Warrant (2018)
12 Without a Trace (2019)
13 The Easter Sepulchre (2020)
14 Master Wycliffe’s Summons (2021)
15 Suppression and Suspicion (2022)