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A Rare Benedictine by Ellis Peters
Category: Fiction
This work comprises three tales of intrigue and treachery, featuring the monastic sleuth. The story of Cadfael's entry into the monastery at Shrewsbury has been known hitherto only to a few readers; now the reader can discover the chain of events that led him into the Benedictine Order.
Brother Cadfael's Penance by Ellis Peters
Category: Fiction | Series: Cadfael Chronicles Ser.
November 1145, and the bitter rift between King Stephen and Empress Maud at last has a chance for reconciliation. It is hoped that a council will resolve the question of prisoners of war. Cadfael has a special interest in attending, for he is seeking his lost son.
Dead Man's Ransom ; bk. 9 by Ellis Peters
Category: Fiction | Series: The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
In the February of the year of our Lord 1141, men march home from war to Shrewsbury, but the captured Sheriff Gilbert Prestcote is not among them. Elis, a young Welsh prisoner, is, and he is delivered to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul to begin a tale that will test Brother Cadfael's sense of ju ...Show more
Fallen into the Pit by Ellis Peters
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector George Felse Mystery Ser.
In this "hypnotically good" debut, a Nazi murdered in an English village sets Sergeant Felse and his son on an investigation few want solved (Boston Sunday Globe). It is 1952, and the shadow of World War II still lies over the green fields of the small village of Comerford on the Welsh borders. When ex- ...Show more
Murder in Midsummer: Classic Mysteries for the Holidays by Cecily Gayford (Editor); Ellis Peters (Contribution by); Ruth Rendell (Contribution by); Arthur Conan Doyle (Contribution by); Dorothy L. Sayers (Contribution by); Margery Allingham (Contribution by); John Dickson Carr (Contribution by); G. K. Chesterton (Contribution by); Michael Innes (Contribution by); Julian Symons (Contribution by)
Category: Fiction
It's the middle of summer. On Cornish sea-fronts, happy children grip melting ice-creams. In the south of France, sunlight filters through leaves as families picnic in the shade. And in the fashionable resorts of the Mediterranean, the beautiful people sun themselves on picture-postcard beaches.And in t ...Show more
One Corpse Too Many: The Second Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters
Category: Fiction | Series: Brother Cadfael Mysteries
Each addition to the series is a joy. Long may the chronicles continue. -- "USA Today" * A Mystery Guild Alternate Selection In the summer of 1138, fighting engulfs Shrewsbury as King Stephen battles the Empress Maud for the throne of England. When Shrewsbury Castle falls, and its 94 defenders are hange ...Show more
The Devil's Novice ; bk. 8 by Ellis Peters
Category: Fiction | Series: The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
Outside the pale of the abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in September of the year of our Lord 1140, a priestly emissary for King Stephen has been reported missing. But inside the pale, Brother Cadfael's attention is turned on Meriet, a proud, secretive, nineteen-year-old novice who has been delivere ...Show more
The Fourth Cadfael Omnibus (PB) by Ellis Peters
Category: Fiction
The Pilgrim of Hate: As the pilgrims gather at Shrewsbury, in distant Winchester a knight has been murdered. Among the throng of pilgrims, some strange customers indeed begin to puzzle Brother Cadfael, and as events unfold it becomes clear that the murder is a much less remote affair that it first seeme ...Show more
The Holy Thief by Ellis Peters
Category: Fiction | Series: Cadfael Chronicles
Strangers seek refuge at the abbey as floodwaters rise, a body falls, and a relic vanishes--in this "top drawer" mystery featuring the twelfth-century monk (Chicago Sun-Times) In the chill, rainy autumn of 1144, two groups of visitors seek the hospitality of the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, and Brot ...Show more
The Rose Rent: 13 by Ellis Peters
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Chronicles of Brother Cadfael Ser.
Brother Cadfael's tranquil life at Shrewsbury monastery is once again interrupted by mysterious happenings.
The Virgin in the Ice : The Sixth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters
Category: Fiction | Series: Cadfael
The Virgin in the Ice ; bk. 6 by Ellis Peters
Category: Fiction | Series: Cadfael Chronicles
It is winter 1139 and the tranquil life in the monastery gardens in Shrewsbury is again interrupted by violence. Raging civil war has sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester. Among them are two orphans from a noble family, a boy of thirteen and an eighteen year old girl of great beauty, with their co ...Show more
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