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

Master Hugh, meeting Hubert the coroner at the scene of the murder, listened carefully to the coroner's surmise that a wolf had caused the great wound. And yet, if so, why was there no blood?

The corpse of a poor scholar, who had tried to sell one of the missing books, is found in the river: but he had not simply drowned ...

Thomas atte Bridge, a man no one likes, is found hanging from a tree near Cowleys Corner. All assume he has taken his own life, but Master Hugh and Kate find evidence that this may not be so...

Master Hugh and his assistant become involved with a kidnapped maiden, a tyrannical abbot, and a suffering monk - who needs Master Hugh's surgical skills and in return provides clues which assist Hugh in solving the mystery of the tainted coin.

Hugh finds the corpse of a young abbey novice - To Hugh's sinking heart, the abbot has a commission for him ...

King Charles of France has announced that he is confiscating Aquitaine, and Prince Edward has sent for knights and men at arms from England to assist him in opposing the French king.

When Bampton’s coroner, Hubert Shillside, does not return from a trip to Oxford, Master Hugh de Singleton is called

Hugh de Singleton must uncover the perpetrator of a poisoning at Kennington Palace

An engrossing read in the successful Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon series.

Sir Hugh is in top form tracking down the wily killer of local clerics while eating his way through a feast of mediaeval dishes

One of Master John Wycliffe’s scholars is found dead after a thunderstorm. Was he struck by lightning, or was there something more sinister to his death?

Delve into the world of fourteenth-century England in this thrilling historical mystery, the fifteenth in the brilliant Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton