To Kill or Cure

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A Terrific Series - Rated
Susanna Gregory is the pseudonym of a Cambridge academic who was previously a coroner's officer. Her series of mediaeval mysteries have gained a formidable following. This book is the thirteenth in the series and introduces the physician Matthew Bartholomew to the reader. There are now a number of books in the series and they are always eagerly awaited by the author's fans.

Besides practicing medicine Matthew is also a teacher at a Cambridge University and his sometimes unorthodox treatment of his patients draws accusations of heresy from his more traditional, but less skilled colleagues.

Cambridge University and the town itself have never really got on. The townsfolk look upon the students as ruffians and bully boys who congregate in the local ale houses and cause nothing but trouble. The years of the plague have left the university with an embarrassing lack of funds and the town's landlords are asking for an extortionate rent rise for the student hostels.

This leads to tension between the town and the university and this tension festers until it explodes into violence and death. Into the middle of all this comes a charismatic physician whose success at healing owes more to magic than medicine. But his success threatens teacher and physician Matthew Bartholomew's professional reputation and his life . . .