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To Kill Or Cure: The Thirteenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew
By (Author) Susanna Gregory
Little, Brown Book Group
Sphere
1st August 2008
5th June 2008
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
448
Width 108mm, Height 178mm, Spine 30mm
260g
Cambridge University is in dire financial straits: the town's landlords are demanding an extortionate rent rise for the students' hostels and the plague years have left the colleges with scant resources. Tension between town and gown is at boiling point and soon explodes into violence and death. Into this maelstrom comes a charismatic physician whose healing methods owe more to magic than medicine but his success threatens Matthew Bartholomew's professional reputation, and his life ...
Susanna Gregory was a coroner's officer before turning to the academic life. She lives in Wales with her husband, also a writer.