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The Rose Rent bc-13

Thu, 26 Nov 1998 09:41:44 +0200

One Corpse Too Many bc-2

Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:41:41 +0200

The Raven in the Foregate bc-12

Sat, 26 Nov 2016 09:41:48 +0200

Monk's Hood bc-3

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:41:45 +0200

The Pilgrim of Hate bc-10

Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:41:46 +0200

St Peter's Fair bc-4

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:41:43 +0200

The Leper of Saint Giles bc-5

Tue, 26 Nov 1991 09:41:46 +0200

Dead Man's Ransom bc-9

Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:41:50 +0200

Virgin in the Ice bc-6

Thu, 26 Nov 2015 09:41:48 +0200

One Corpse Too Many

Thu, 06 Dec 1979 23:01:48 +0300

In the Summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden to the bloody battlefield.

The Confession of Brother Haluin

Sun, 06 Dec 1987 23:01:44 +0300

December, 1142. A brother of Shrewsbury Abbey suffers a fall that almost kills him. He makes a shocking deathbed confession to Brother Cadfael. When the man recovers Cadfael accompanies him on an arduous journey to redeem his past sins.

The Knocker on Death's Door

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:45:43 +0300

Product Description

The knocker hung on a very special door--heavy oak, with a late-Gothic arch, and apparently a late-Gothic curse. The door was moved from an old abbey to the village church, and legend held that sinners who seized the knocker had their hands burned. But Gerry Bracewell didn't die of burns . . .

Mourning Raga

Sun, 18 Sep 1988 08:45:48 +0400

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As a favour to his girlfriend Tossa's beautiful but erratic filmstar mother, Dominic Felse agrees to escort a teenage heiress to her father in India. But travelling with the spoilt, precocious Anjili is no sinecure -- and the task of delivering her back to her family proves less than easy. Dominic and Tossa find themselves embroiled in a mystery that swiftly and shockingly becomes a murder investigation. For behind the colourful, smiling mask of India that the tourist sees is another country -- remote, mysterious -- and often shatteringly brutal...

About the Author

Ellis Peters gained worldwide praise and recognition for her crime fiction and for her meticulous recreations of monastic life in the twelfth century in the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael.

Potter's Field

Mon, 18 Sep 1989 08:45:47 +0400

From Publishers Weekly

Peter's 17th mystery featuring Brother Cadfael finds the 12th-century monk at his most sober and reflective, but his detecting talents are as dazzling as ever. When a newly tilled field recently given to the Benedictine abbey yields the hastily buried body of a young woman, Brother Cadfael takes a keen and immediate interest in the situation. Ruald, the former tenant of the land, entered the abbey as a novice a year earlier, abandoning his beautiful, young and extremely resentful wife, Generys. She has since mysteriously disappeared. Though it seems likely that the body is hers, Ruald is quickly cleared of suspicion via an unlikely source. Sulien Blount, a monk fleeing homeward from the devastating civil war near his own abbey, has solid proof that Generys was recently seen alive. When a second suspect, an itinerant peddlar, is arrested in connection with the murder, Sulien is again able to clear him. Brother Cadfael, deeply troubled, feels that Sulien knows much more than he is saying. An unusual air of melancholy pervades this novel as war, illness and human frailties take their tolls on the weary citizens of Shrewsbury. Created with Peters's consummate skill, Brother Cadfael's world is here seen through a darker glass.
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Review

'A pleasing and unusual mixture of suspense and historical fiction.' EVENING STANDARD