by Susanna Gregory · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401472848
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«La sangre del abad» is the historical mystery novel by Susanna Gregory, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (408 pages, in Spanish).
In the city of Cambridge, ravaged by the Black Death, the corpse of a friar appears in a trunk and several prostitutes are murdered, while the university's vice-chancellor has disappeared. Matthew Bartholomew, a physician dedicated to training new medical staff, becomes involved in the investigation and uncovers a sect that blackmails and deceives.
Second installment in the Matthew Bartholomew series, translated by Gemma Moral Bartolomé and originally published as An Unholy Alliance.
For those seeking historical mysteries set in the Middle Ages with an unusual investigator, such as the physician Matthew Bartholomew.
Susanna Gregory is the pseudonym of Elizabeth Cruwys, a Cambridge academic who was previously a coroner's officer. She writes detective fiction, and is noted for her series of mediaeval mysteries featuring Matthew Bartholomew, a teacher of medicine and investigator of murders in 14th-century Cambridge.
