The Unquiet Bones

The First Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon

by Melvin R. Starr

Having read the Second Chronicle in this series I was delighted to receive this First Chronicle and it did not take me long to have read this too! Set in the fourteenth century, Hugh is a young man starting on his career as a surgeon and trying to attract customers to his room in an Inn in Oxford. Fortunately for him an accident occurs below his window and he is able to help the injured man who turns out to be Lord Gilbert Talbot, Lord of the castles of Bampton, and of Goodrich. As a result, Hugh moves into Bampton to serve this Lord and his people as their Surgeon. Very soon Lord Gilbert asks him to examine some human bones found in the castle cess-pit. This leads to a search for the identity of the dead girl and to the subsequent finding of more bodies and their murderers.
A murder story with historical interest which gives an insight into the lives of the people of this time.



Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew   (22/12/09)

Paperback
Price: £8.99
Publisher:Monarch imprint of Lion Hudson
Published:2008
ISBN:978-1-854-24885-5