Satisfying.
After waiting for almost a year, picking up Susanna Gregory's 13th edition of the Matthew Bartholomew series was not disappointing. Some series have a tendency to be repetitive and utterly predictable after the third or fourth edition. Not this one. Yes, it is a whodunit, so the process and story flow is more or less similar througout, and to be expected. But the plots are devilishly ingenious whilst the characters are slowly developed over the course of the adventures.
For a while, I thought I'd be a tad bit bored of Bartholomew and co, having lain off the series since The Tarnished Chalice. But I was pleasantly mistaken; the scholars of Cambridge got a grip on me once again the moment I turned to page one. And by the end of the book, I was glad to have spent an entire evening reading and uncovering the villain. To be honest, there are several scenes that seem to drag on for no particular reason, but when the chase starts, the hunt is on. And it remains a hunt right to the end, when the heroic physician and 'big-boned' monk face their adversary in a do-or-die standoff.
So yeah, a well-spent RM 30, and a restless anticipation for book 14.
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