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A Killer in Winter: The Ninth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew (Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle (Time Warner))

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Author: Susanna Gregory
Publisher: Little, Brown
Category: Book

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 588461

Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 500
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.8 x 1.7

ISBN: 0316860115
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780316860116
ASIN: 0316860115

Publication Date: June 5, 2003
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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

An Exciting Wintery Tale August 11, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful

Susanna Gregory is not as prolific a writer as many of the authors who write this style of book and the anticipation of waiting for a new title can be quite frustrating for the reader. However the wait is always worthwhile.

Her choice of Cambridge as the main backdrop to her books is inspired. It seems to lull the reader into a world of spires and colleges inhabited by the students and academics who teach there. There is also always the underground rumblings of the inhabitants of the city who are constantly at loggerheads with the colleges and hate the students intensely, thinking of them as nothing more than thugs and bully boys.

Christmas is coming and while Matthew Bartholomew's colleagues in the Cambridge colleges are preparing for the festivities, Matthew in his role of physician is struggling to help the poorer citizens through one of the worst winters in living memory.

Matthew however, is given a brief respite from his duties when Brother Michael calls on him to identify a man found dead, probably from the freezing cold in one of the churches. The victim is servant to the husband of Matthew's lost love Philippa. Later, the husband himself is the victim of a tragic accident on treacherous ice. Or, perhaps the death is not the accident everyone supposes it to be . . .

Susanna Gregory has a well proven formula and she sticks to it. Her books are well written, well researched and most of all they are enjoyable to read. I love them.

4 out of 5 stars

Very entertaining February 25, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

Chilly though! Matthew, Bartholomew and the whole of Cambridge are caught up in one of the worst winters ever when unexpected visitors from London (and Matthew's past) arrive. Before long the first corpses are found, and once again Matthew and Michael have to investigate.

Gregory captures the atmosphere of a 14th century town very well, and while none of the characters has changed a lot over the 9 novels in the series I've read so far that actually didn't disturb me in the least (probably because the main characters are so well fleshed-out and soon become as familiar as people one knows in the flesh).

Sure, there are some minor flaws (like having a conversation that most have taken at least fifteen minutes while you're caught in freezing water) but what the heck! As soon as the tenth episode is out in paperback I'll be standing in line to buy it.

3 out of 5 stars In the bleak Fen winter July 22, 2003
7 out of 10 found this review helpful

Susanna Gregory certainly conveys to us what it was like to be constantly cold in snow-bound Cambridge in the 1300's, where bodies, frozen naturally or 'done to death' occur with regularity. There is a lot of social history sandwiched in between the lines of the plot -- like the danger of heavy snow lingering on the roofs of poorly constructed houses. Matthew Bartholemew and his friend Michael do not disappoint, though there are some unexpected twists of character among familiar people in the story. The author conjures up the sights and smells of Cambridge at this period very well, and the bodies keep coming! There are some improbably long conversations with guilty people in life-threatening crises. Maybe the novel is overlong and the chill gets to the reader, but regular followers of the series will enjoy the contrivances of the plot.