The Tainted Coin (Paperback) by Mel Starr

from bgknighton

Hugh finds a badly beaten man, saves his family. Good entry.

from Bill.Bradford

Starr's book about Hugh de Singleton, surgeon and bailiff, have a unique voice. The stories are told in first person by Hugh. This style has grown in the series - it felt awkward in places in the earlier books but now fits like a well worn shoe. Hugh is an everyman more than a skilled detective. ...

from shopgirl152ny

If you're looking for a mystery or like the medieval time period, look no further! It's 1367 and Master Hugh is both a surgeon and the bailiff for a lord, so when a man dies on the lord's land he determines it is murder and starts to investigate. When an ancient coin falls out of the man's mouth,...

from VeraGodley

The historical setting of The Tainted Coin is medieval England in the year 1367. This is a new period read for me and I found it very interesting. So often historical reads are romances and filled with the give and take of the male and female protagonists. However, in The Tainted Coin I discovere...

from Sarah_Bailey

I've had the pleasure of reading two other books in this series, Hugh de Singleton, A Trail of Ink and Unhallowed Ground and like the others I thoroughly enjoyed this one as well. I don't know if I enjoyed this one more because we've been studying the Middle Ages and the Plague in our history in ...