The Tarnished Chalice

by Susanna Gregory
The Tarnished Chalice

Published

May 2007

Publishers

UK
Little, Brown
 

The Twelfth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew

 

On a bitter winter evening in 1356, Matthew Bartholomew, Brother Michael and their book-bearer Cynric arrive in Lincoln.  Michael is to accept an honour from the cathedral, and Bartholomew is looking for the woman he wasn’t to marry.  It is not long before they learn that the friary in which they are staying is not the safe haven they imagined – one guest has already been murdered.

It soon emerges that the dead man was holding the Hugh Chalice, a Lincoln relic with a curiously bloody history.  Bartholomew and Michael are drawn into a web of murder, lies and suspicion in a city where neither knows who can be trusted.

 

A richly imagined world of colourful medieval society and irresistible monkish sleuthing.

Good Book Guide

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