[The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon 04] • Unhallowed Ground

**Another brilliant slice of medieval crime fiction** Thomas atte Bridge, a

man no one likes, is found hanging from a tree near Cowleys Corner. All assume

he has taken his own life, but Master Hugh and Kate find evidence that this

may not be so.

Many of the town had been harmed by Thomas, and Hugh is not eager to send one

of them to the gallows. Then he discovers that the priest John Kellet, atte

Bridge's partner in crime in _A Corpse at St. Andrew's Chapel_ , was covertly

in Bampton at the time atte Bridge died.

Master Hugh is convinced that Kellet has murdered atte Bridge--one rogue

slaughtering another. He sets out for Exeter, where Kellet now works. But

there he discovers that the priest is an emaciated skeleton of a man, who

mourns the folly of his past life. Hugh must return to Bampton and discover

which of his friends has murdered his enemy.