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Old 07-05-2021, 10:31 AM   #5467
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The Habit of Murder is the 23rd and next-to-most-recent in the Matthew Bartholomew series by Susanna Gregory. It has dropped to $0.99 at Kindle and Kobo US. I enjoyed the first few books in this series many years ago in DTB, and since then have liked the few that have gone on sale from time to time.

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N6DCRQ1/
Kindle US/Smile: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01N6DCRQ1/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-habit-of-murder

Spoiler:
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The twenty third chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew.

In 1360 a deputation from Cambridge ventures to the Suffolk town of Clare in the hope that the wealthy Elizabeth de Burgh has left a legacy to Michaelhouse. Yet when they arrive they discover that the report of her death is false and that the college seems destined for bankruptcy.

Determined to see if some of its well-heeled citizens can be persuaded to sponsor Michaelhouse, Matthew Bartholomew, Brother Michael and Master Langelee become enmeshed in the town's politics. They quickly discover that a great many other people in Clare have recently met untimely deaths. These killings, combined with the arrogance Lady de Burgh has shown over the refurbishment of the church and the grotesque behaviour of some of her entourage, have created a dangerous restlessness in the town: an atmosphere intensified when yet more murders occur.

One of the victims is a fellow traveller of the Michaelhouse contingent, and Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael feel honour-bound to identify his killer. It is a hunt which takes them deep into Clare's murky foundations and which threatens their own survival as well as that of their beloved college.


And, as @murraypaul mentioned in an earlier post, the first two books in the series seem to be permanently at $0.99 and $1.99, so you can try the series on the cheap if you want to. Info here.

And finally, when I was looking at the series page, I noticed that the eleventh book, The Mark Of A Murderer, is still $1.66, which it has been for quite a while. Info in @Tarana's previous post.

And here are Kobo links for the last three:
A Plague On Both Your Houses, #1: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-p...-your-houses-1
An Unholy Alliance, #2: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/an-unholy-alliance-4
The Mark Of A Murderer, #11: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...f-a-murderer-1
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