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An Order for Death
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Believers in the theory of nominalism have set some Cambridge colleges at the throats of those who believe them to be heretics, and Michael, the senior proctor, has his work cut out to keep the peace. When a nominalist is murdered during a riot, Michael is certain he will easily find the killer amongst the Dominicans, but before he can get any sense out of them his junior proctor, Walcote, is found hanged, and he discovers that his trusted ally had arranged secret meetings at the St Ragelund Convent between men who would not normally be seen together - and the nuns of St Ragelund are renowned for behaviour entirely inappropriate to their calling.
Meanwhile Matthew Bartholomew learns that Michael, his lifelong friend, is in all probability the thief who relieved one of the antinominalist colleges of some of their most precious papers. If that charge were proved, it would put paid to Michael's long-term plans to become master of Michaelhouse - but would he kill to protect himself? Unable to believe his colleague would be capable of such acts, Bartholomew knows the only way he can quiet his own conscience is to solve the murders himself.
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- Cate F.
- 10-24-23
Confusing number of characters
I enjoy these books tremendously, in particular the friendship between Michael and Matthew. Unfortunately, the number of other characters in this particular book were confusing for me to keep straight and their membership in so many orders. Nonetheless, I look forward to reading the next several volumes.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-09-19
Carry on in the Cloisters
I have loved all of these books and this one is possibly my favourite so far, probably in the same way the best Morse episodes were set in the arcane world of Oxford university so this, for me, was enjoyable for being firmly set within the university life of Cambridge. I enjoy the setting and the time period as it is also leading me to learn a little more about the period and in this case the background of the philosophical idea of nominalism. However you don't have to be interested in anything else to enjoy the novel. The book is great fun despite the murders because of a thread of humour. The various orders of monks all brawling in the church at the end was straight out of a carry on film. The regular characters become like friends as you get to know them over the books and David Thorpe's narration brings them too life in great style. My only gripe would be the character of Matilde who seems totally unrealistic and too vapid in character but fortunately she is not in much and the real joy is the relationship between Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael as they bicker and blunder their way through to save Cambridge university yet again. Long may it continue.
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- Sarah
- 11-08-18
Brilliant
i love these books, David Thorpe is a genius, he brings life to Susanna Gregory's richly imagined characters and intriguing stories. This one is my favourite so far.
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- Hathor
- 06-29-17
Good story but terrible narration
If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?
The book is well plotted and has good characterisation but it is the narration that really lets it down with uneven and sometimes damn strange interpretations of the main characters. If you enjoy murder mysteries with nice historical touches then I would recommend reading the book rather than listening to it.
What other book might you compare An Order for Death to, and why?
Sorry, didn't know how to answer this one.
How could the performance have been better?
Thorpes interpretation of some of the monks can be strange and in this particular case embarrassing. When voicing one of the adult monks, described in the book as the size of a child, Thorpe produces a high pitched whiney voice similar to a truculent two year old, making for a truly cringeworthy listen. I do like how he gives voice to Mathew Bartholomew, one of the main protagonists but remain unsure about the other, Brother Michael.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
In between the moments of cringing the story was interesting but I am returning the book as I can't bear to listen to the narrator anymore. For me this is one book I will stick to reading rather than listening.
Any additional comments?
The stories are getting better as they go along but the narrator killed this one for me I am afraid. I can only hope that somebody has a discreet word with Thorpe and suggests that he changes his narration style otherwise I may be returning a lot of audio books back to Audible.
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- Nicola
- 08-15-23
What's not to like?
Great story based in 14 century Cambridge with interesting characters and one of the best narrators.
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- MACK BLACK
- 01-26-23
Great fun.
To think that clerics previously killed each other is astounding, to consider it could even occur on Easter Sunday was even more shocking.
So was the notion of a Convent full of Nuns working as Prosecutes. Lol!
Great Narrator and very amusing story.
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- Maz Smith
- 05-17-22
giving up
I absolutely loved the last book I listened to in this series but this has got to go back. the reading is awful. the voices are too annoying.
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- Kindle Customer
- 11-08-20
A little More Care...
I am warmly committed to this series, and I have several more chronicles in my library.
Positives: Cambridge setting; the main repeating characters; complex plotting; great humour, and easy to listen/read and wanting to listen-on/read-on; clarity of diction in David Thorpe's performance - Mathew and Michael's voice characterisations are mainstays.
Less Positives: stock words over the novels (glower/glowering); Mathew and his hand through his hair - basically a want of greater editing in book and audio e.g. clarity on how long Lincolne had been in Cambridge (child, student or Prior); 1838 not 1338 in the audio. There are many, many characters in each chronicle and it must be hard to find voices for all. Greater attention to voicing lesser characters and sometimes straight reading might benefit (once a character's voice switches mid-speech.)
Longing: For Matilde to figure more significantly and Mathew to get on with things.
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- Janicef
- 07-07-20
Predictable by its unpredictability
As usual in this series the hero is dumb, the monk is the brains (but not always a nice person) and the most unlikely person did the deed, This version has the extra unpredictability of and even more obscure character coming out of the woodwork to claim he's the brains behind it all.
But, also, as usual, its listenable in an easy-going "background while your working" way and the history and characterisations are always good, Minor people from earlier books develop into mains and some older ones disappear which is good and keeps the series fresh in at least one way even if the detective process consists of going down the wrong road until the bad guy suddenly puts his hand up seemingly for no other reason than he wants to get hanged. But I'm addicted now so roll on book 8
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- Lucie Graham-Cumming
- 04-22-20
Yet again
Yet again Susanna Gregory has done a fantastic job with this book, and David Thorpe brought our favourite characters to life!!
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- Sandy
- 03-08-19
Another enthralling tale
With its many twist and turns one is kept guessing who did what. Well read as ever.
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The much-feared and hated Eudo - the Lord Bishop of Winchester's clerk - is bludgeoned to death in Pershore Abbey and laid before the altar in the attitude of a penitent. Everyone who had contact with him had reason to dislike him, but who had reason to kill him? The Sheriff of Worcestershire's thief taker, wily Serjeant Catchpoll, and his new and unwanted superior, Undersheriff Hugh Bradecote, have to find the answer. And as the walls of the abbey close in on the suspects, the killer strikes again....
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Medieval armchair mystery
- By Marie on 08-12-17
By: Sarah Hawkswood
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A Plague of Heretics
- By: Bernard Knight
- Narrated by: Paul Matthews
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Following a series of murders which appear to be linked to a revival of heresy, some of the cathedral canons begin a crusade against this danger to the Church. When Sir John is accused of being too sympathetic to the heretics, the coroner finds himself having to seek sanctuary in order to save his own life. Can he survive long enough to unmask the real killer?
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A Fond Farewell to Crowner John
- By Marie on 09-07-13
By: Bernard Knight
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A Plague on Both Your Houses
- The First Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew
- By: Susanna Gregory
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Matthew Bartholomew, unorthodox but effective physician to Michaelhouse college in medieval Cambridge, is as worried as anyone about the pestilence that is ravaging Europe and seems to be approaching England. But he is distracted by the sudden and inexplicable death of the Master of Michaelhouse - a death the University authorities do not want investigated.
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I should have loved this book.
- By J. Miller on 09-11-19
By: Susanna Gregory
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A Mortal Bane
- By: Roberta Gellis
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Magdalene la Batarde is the madam of the Old Priory Guesthouse in Southwark. She and her women are expected to engage in a number of sinful activities, but bloody murder isn't one of them until Baldassare, the messenger, dies. Though Baldassare isn't a regular client of the Old Priory Guesthouse, Magdalene and her women refuse to allow his death to go unavenged. Of course, their efforts aren't completely altruistic.
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Delightful
- By Jim on 08-25-05
By: Roberta Gellis
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The Alchemist's Apprentice
- By: Dave Duncan
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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When the Council of 10 takes the seer Nostradamus into custody, suspecting him of poisoning a friend of the prince, his young apprentice must unravel a web of magic and murder if he is to have any future of his own.
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Excellent Book.
- By DoktorK on 07-12-08
By: Dave Duncan
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The King's Corrodian
- Gil Cunningham Series, Book 10
- By: Pat McIntosh
- Narrated by: Andrew Watson
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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The tenth story in the popular Gil Cunningham series set in medieval Glasgow. 'The tale seems very improbable,' Gil Cunningham said. 'How should the Devil enter a religious house and carry off one of its members?' How indeed? But Arnold Fleming, the widely dislike pensioner, or corrodian, lodged in the Dominican's house in Perth, has vanished from a chamber, and a local knight and his mistress claim to have seen the Devil abroad that very same night.
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Excellent series
- By Cynthia R Erickson on 07-25-23
By: Pat McIntosh
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Servant of Death
- Bradecote and Catchpoll
- By: Sarah Hawkswood
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The much-feared and hated Eudo - the Lord Bishop of Winchester's clerk - is bludgeoned to death in Pershore Abbey and laid before the altar in the attitude of a penitent. Everyone who had contact with him had reason to dislike him, but who had reason to kill him? The Sheriff of Worcestershire's thief taker, wily Serjeant Catchpoll, and his new and unwanted superior, Undersheriff Hugh Bradecote, have to find the answer. And as the walls of the abbey close in on the suspects, the killer strikes again....
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Medieval armchair mystery
- By Marie on 08-12-17
By: Sarah Hawkswood
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A Plague of Heretics
- By: Bernard Knight
- Narrated by: Paul Matthews
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Following a series of murders which appear to be linked to a revival of heresy, some of the cathedral canons begin a crusade against this danger to the Church. When Sir John is accused of being too sympathetic to the heretics, the coroner finds himself having to seek sanctuary in order to save his own life. Can he survive long enough to unmask the real killer?
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A Fond Farewell to Crowner John
- By Marie on 09-07-13
By: Bernard Knight
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Mind of a Killer
- A Victorian History
- By: Simon Beaufort
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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London, 1882. Alec Lonsdale, a young reporter on the Pall Mall Gazette, is working on a story about a fatal house fire. But the postmortem on the victim produces shocking results: Patrick Donovan's death was no accident. But why would someone murder a humble shop assistant and steal part of his brain? When a second body is discovered, its throat cut, and then a third, Lonsdale and his spirited female colleague, Hulda Friederichs, begin to uncover evidence of a conspiracy that reaches to the highest echelons of Victorian society.
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Really, really good
- By Sherry on 11-28-18
By: Simon Beaufort
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The Midwife's Tale
- A Mystery
- By: Sam Thomas
- Narrated by: Leila Birch
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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It is 1644, and Parliament’s armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebels’ hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of Bridget’s friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be burnt alive. Convinced that her friend is innocent, Bridget sets out to find the real killer.
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Only so so
- By Marie on 11-13-13
By: Sam Thomas
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The King's Return
- By: Andrew Swanston
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The king's coronation brings hope. Until a murderer strikes. Spring 1661: After years of civil war followed by Oliver Cromwell's joyless rule as Lord Protector, England awaits the coronation of King Charles II. The mood in London is one of relief and hope for a better future. But when two respectable gentlemen are found in a foul lane with their throats cut, it becomes apparent that England's enemies are using the newly re-established post office for their own ends.
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More please
- By tara souther on 12-22-22
By: Andrew Swanston
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The Fourth Crow
- Gil Cunningham Mysteries
- By: Pat McIntosh
- Narrated by: Andrew Watson
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Tied to St Mungo's Cross by the cathedral to be cured of her madness overnight by the saint, the young woman is found in the morning beaten and strangled, still tied to the cross. But is she who she seems to be? And who would flout the saint's protection like this? Gil Cunningham must trace the dead woman and find her enemies, track down the thieves and murderers and identify the watchers in the shadows, particularly the elusive fourth person who holds the secret of what happened that night. Questioning cathedral staff and apprentice boys, pilgrims and tradesmen, he uncovers only more puzzles.
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Scots for real.
- By JBatte on 10-20-22
By: Pat McIntosh
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Crowner Royal
- By: Bernard Knight
- Narrated by: Paul Matthews
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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