Blue is so "in" this year

Another Tuesday. A gorgeous dark and rainy day. Sigh. Spent at work.

Walked Tug, fixed SOS for Steve for dinner (yuck), and watched Deadliest Catch. Now about to read in bed for a bit. Tomorrow I have to give blood for labs and have a checkup in the afternoon.

Just starting A VEIN OF DECEIT by Susanna Gregory. This is 15th of 15 in series featuring Matthew Bartholomew, physician, and his colleague Brother Michael, in 14th century Cambridge, England. Here is a description:

Despite a new influx of well-heeled students, Michaelhouse has suffered from an acute lack of funds that has made itself manifest in a lack of decent provisions. It is only when the Brother in charge of the account books dies unexpectedly that an explanation is revealed: large amounts of money had been paid for goods the college never received. Although shocked by this evidence of fraud, Matthew Bartholomew is more concerned with the disappearance of a quantity of pennyroyal from his herbarium. Pennyroyal is known to cause a woman to miscarry, and a pregnant visitor to his sister's household has died from an overdose of the substance. Had she meant to abort her child, or had someone else wanted to ensure that she was unable to provide an heir to her husband's wealthy estates? When Brother Michael and Matthew learns that it was the dead woman’s husband who had received Michaelhouse's missing money, he begins to search for other connections and quickly exposes a deep and treacherous conspiracy.

It was published in 2009 and has 480 pages. I am so in the mood for a histmyst.


Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster