Matthew Bartholomew Books in Order

In 1348, as plague heads for Cambridge, physician Matthew Bartholomew suspects the Master of Michaelhouse was murdered. Solving the crime means navigating fear, superstition, and a university already starting to come apart.

The plague has passed, but Cambridge is still broken. When a corpse is found in the chest that holds the university's most precious documents, Matthew must leave his teaching and hunt a killer before panic returns.

As rumors of plague's return send Cambridge searching for holy protection, the sudden discovery of a local martyr's bones looks almost too convenient. Matthew suspects fraud, and then the deaths begin.

Three university men die after drinking poisoned wine, drawing Matthew and Brother Michael into a conspiracy driven by greed, family ties, and academic resentment. The deeper they dig, the more dangerous Cambridge becomes.

A trip to rural Suffolk should have been routine business for Michaelhouse. Instead, Matthew and Michael find a village thick with superstition, old grudges, and murder.

When the Master of Michaelhouse is found murdered on the banks of the Cam, Matthew and Michael are forced into a dangerous investigation at the heart of their own college. Everyone around them has a motive.

Cambridge is split by a bitter theological dispute when a young friar is stabbed. Matthew and Michael must stop the quarrel turning even deadlier before the university tears itself apart.

The Bishop of Ely stands accused of murdering the steward of his fierce rival Blanche de Wake. Matthew and Michael head into the eerie Fens, where politics, suspicion, and murder are hard to untangle.

Matthew's past catches up with him when his former fiancée arrives in Cambridge with her new husband. Personal embarrassment turns to murder when a servant is killed and old feelings cloud the case.

Two pardoned killers return to Cambridge eager for revenge, while a violent dispute between rival mills threatens the town. Matthew and Michael face a case where grudges can spill blood at any moment.

After a savage riot in Oxford, refugee scholars flee to Cambridge, only for one of them to be murdered. Matthew and Michael must solve the crime before both universities pay the price.

A winter journey to Lincoln pulls Matthew and Michael into a string of brutal murders and a city steeped in corruption. Under the cathedral's shadow, nearly everyone has something to hide.

Ten years after the Black Death, Cambridge is terrorized by a hooded figure known as the Sorcerer. When rumor starts pointing at Matthew himself, he must clear his name while hunting a killer.

Rent increases push Cambridge toward open conflict between town and gown just as a mysterious healer arrives. When a body is found, Matthew begins to wonder whether the newcomer's cures conceal something far darker.

Michaelhouse is already short of money when its chalices are stolen, its Master attacked, and its treasurer accused of theft. Matthew must defend his colleagues while a deadly misuse of stolen medicines raises the stakes.

A wealthy benefactor is found dead in Michaelhouse, and the college risks being blamed. Matthew and Brother Michael need answers fast before suspicion hardens into scandal.

Matthew and Michael travel to York to claim a church left to Michaelhouse, only to find rival claimants and fresh murder waiting for them. The legal dispute quickly turns into a deadly one.

A donated house for Cambridge's new library should be a triumph, but it sparks anger across the university. Then four bodies are discovered in the garden, and scholarship gives way to violence.

When the unpopular Abbot of Peterborough vanishes, Brother Michael is sent to investigate and Matthew goes with him. Monastic rivalries, town bitterness, and a murder at a shrine make the abbey a dangerous place.

A ceremonial procession for a new college turns grim when Brother Michael's abrasive Junior Proctor is murdered. More deaths follow, exposing fault lines between the university, the town, and a powerful guild.

A run of baffling illnesses and deaths sweeps through Cambridge, and Matthew cannot tell if he is facing contagion or poison. A vain new physician at Zachary Hostel only makes the search for truth harder.

As Brother Michael's hopes of becoming a bishop grow, Chancellor Tynkell is murdered and Matthew's patients begin dying alarmingly fast. Their investigation leads deep into danger for both town and university.

What should be a routine visit to Clare becomes another tangle of local feuds and suspicious deaths. Matthew and Michael arrive just in time to find a town preparing for celebration and hiding a killer.

Murders at a hospital on Trumpington Road seem tied to killings among university scholars. Matthew and Michael face a crowd of suspects, from royal agents to a supposed witch, with fear and rumor clouding every clue.

In his final term before marriage and retirement, Matthew hopes for calm and gets multiple murders instead. When two scholars vanish, he starts to fear the mastermind may be dangerously close to home.