A Grave Concern

The Twenty Second Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew

By: Susanna Gregory

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Identifying the murderer of the Chancellor of the university is not the only challenge facing physician Matthew Bartholomew. Many of his patients have been made worse by the ministrations of a 'surgeon' recently arrived from Nottingham, his sister is being rooked by the mason she has commissioned to build her husband's tomb and his friend, Brother Michael, has been offered a bishopric which will cause him to leave Cambridge.

Brother Michael, keen to leave the university in good order, is determined that the new Chancellor will be a man of his choosing. The number of contenders putting themselves forward for election threatens to get out of control, then more deaths in mysterious circumstances make it appear that someone is taking extreme measures to manipulate the competition.

With passions running high and a bold killer at large, both Bartholomew and Brother Michael fear the very future of the university is at stake.

©2016 Susanna Gregory (P)2016 Soundings Ltd

Excellent series, looking for more in audio

What made the experience of listening to A Grave Concern the most enjoyable?

Susanna Gregory has developed an excellent series, maintaining certain enjoyable and evolving characters throughout the series while always introducing new people, new history to the story.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Matthew, the complexity of his character grows.

Would you listen to another book narrated by David Thorpe?

Not sure; there was rather a lot of what seemed like over-dramatization - as much as I loved the story, I was tempted to fast forward through some of the more emotional scenes.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Greed. politics, and scheming... a historical curriculum.

Any additional comments?

I do hope audiobooks of the earlier books in this series are done, especially if they are narrated by Andrew Wincott.

Complicated

Michael is finally offered the position he has strived for and the election for his replacement turns deadly. A journey that gets complicated in finding the murderer

I love the narrator’s ability to carry the story through his voices

Keeping all the names and characters straight through the complex story so that I find some of the plot hard to follow.

Obsessed with this series

In the time of COVID Susanna Gregory’s Cambridge mysteries have kept me sane during this stressful times.
From volume one to A Grave Concern, I have been taken to a distant and interesting time.

Yay another success.

This one had me thinking the villain was someone completely different. David Thorpe once again does a fabulous job