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  • The Unquiet Bones

  • Written by: Mel Starr
  • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
  • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (25 ratings)

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The Unquiet Bones

Written by: Mel Starr
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
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Publisher's Summary

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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An excellent medieval mystery

Mel Starr has written this series of mysteries with interesting details about medieval life and medieval surgery

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  • njm
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Good listen

Interesting story line. Good plot. Nice delivery by narrator. I look forward to listening to more of this authors books.

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A good listen.

, reminiscent of Cadfael in many ways but sufficiently diffent in setting, details and characters.

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It grows on you.

At first I wasn’t sure but within about 15 minutes I was hooked and thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s a time in history that I had not touched on since school so I found various aspects of the story really interesting and the narrator was perfect.

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