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  • The Unquiet Bones

  • By: Mel Starr
  • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
  • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,463 ratings)

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The Unquiet Bones

By: Mel Starr
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First in the medieval whodunnit series set in Bampton, Oxfordshire, during the plague years and featuring a newly qualified surgeon

Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk, usually a prelude to taking holy orders. However, feeling no certain calling despite a lively faith, he turns to the profession of surgeon, training in Paris and then hanging out his sign in Oxford.

A local lord asks him to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cesspit. She is identified as the impetuous missing daughter of a local blacksmith, and her young man, whom she had provoked very publicly, is in due course arrested and sentenced at the Oxford assizes.

From there the tale unfolds, with graphic medical procedures, droll medieval wit, misdirection, ambition, romantic distractions, and a consistent underlying Christian compassion.

©2008 Mel Starr (P)2019 by Blackstone Publishing

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Wonderful!!!

So glad to have found this series!! Very well written and Steven Crossley’s narration is superb! If you enjoy CJ Sansom’s Matthew Shardlake or Susanna Gregory’s Matthew Bartholomew- I’m sure you’ll enjoy this!!

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SURPRISE!!

What a wonderful surprise and pleasure it was listening to this story! I am a hardcore mystery, thriller, BIG NAME DETECTIVE AND HERO type listener. This book was well written, the story extremely entertaining and SMART and the main character was just GREAT! You could use much fancier words...just listen and enjoy.

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Surprise

I was skeptical at first, but I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book. I loved medieval books when I was a teenager, but had very much gotten away from that genre. This made me excited to go back and hear more! Thank you for a great bunch!

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Brother Cadfael's Cousin

I enjoyed listening to this book, which was well narrated. Nothing to distract the listener. I am also a fan of the Brother Cadfael series, so I was happy to stumble on this series on Audible. I've only so far listened to the first book, finding it slight more complex in structure and medical descriptions. The story was good and the characters likable. I will move on to the next few books!

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well done

it was a very good story with great characters. I didn't have the murders figured out & that's always a good thing. I'll read more from this author.

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Love this Series

I love this series. The books are historical accurate, entertaining stories. You have a mystery inner twined with the life story of Huge. Well written, well preformed, looking forward to each additional book.

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way better than expected & too short

really great shorter story with wit and interesting characters and twists. definitely better than I expected.

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Good

Really enjoyed this title. Will listen to more by this author. The narration was also excellent.

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Great Listen

First book I’ve listened to by Mel Starr. I was not disappointed. Great narration, great content, amazing plot.

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805 Wonderful!

I’m not sure what happened in the last two chapters, but the first 90% of the book I found absolutely delightful. Great story, moves along I had a nice pace. You may want to turn the narration speed up to 1.1, it is a little slow, and I don’t know what happened in the last two chapters. I literally rewound to make sure I hadn’t missed some thing or a chapter for that perhaps they were giving me a free preview of a different book. Still totally worth it.

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