The Unquiet Bones
Books | Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical
3.6
Melvin Starr
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 cess pit.
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.
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