First Published: 2010
The novel is set in Cambridge in 1348.
The prologue shows us someone returning to a collegue on the sly, and it seems that he is scared. The next day a miller finds a body stuck in the river wheel.
We are then introduced to Matthew Bartholomew, a master of mathematics, and he is in a funeral procession. The collegue master, Sir John Brabington, has committed suicide - he is the man found by the miller - and he is to be buried outside the town in unconsecrated ground. Brabington's likely successor is Thomas Wilson, someone who Bartholomew dislikes, and other masters do not like either. It seems that with the new master changes will take place, and Matthew thinks that the situation will be worse in the college.
This is an interesting start. I have the hunch that Matthew will discover that Brabington didn't commit suicide but was murdered.
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