Matthew Bartholomew Series / A Plague on Both Your Houses / Susanna Gregory

Matthew Bartholomew is a doctor and the unorthodox but effective treatment of his patients often provokes accusations of heresy from his more traditional colleagues. In addition to his practice, Bartholomew teaches medicine at Michaelhouse, part of the fledgling University of Cambridge. In 1348, the people of Cambridge live in the shadow of a terrible plague that has ravaged Europe and is inexorably advancing eastwards towards England. Bartholomew, however, is distracted by the sudden and unexplained death of the Master of Michaelhouse – a death that the university authorities refuse to allow to be investigated. When three more scholars die in mysterious circumstances, Bartholomew defies the university and begins his own investigation. His quest for the truth leads him into a complex web of lies and intrigue that leads him to question the innocence of his closest friends and even his family. And then the Black Death comes, and Bartholomew is drawn deeper and deeper into a quagmire that threatens not only his life, but also the continuation of the university and the future of the city.