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A Morbid Taste for Bones
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Edith Pargeter |
12th-century Shrewsbury monks go to Wales to recover a 7th-century saint’s relics, and encounter opposition from the relics’ current keepers. Then the opposition leader is murdered. |
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The Leper of Saint Giles
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Edith Pargeter |
Brother Cadfael must travel to the heart of a leper colony to root out the secret to a savage murder. Setting out for the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael has more pressin… |
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The summer of the Danes
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Edith Pargeter |
In the summer of 1144, a strange calm has settled over England--almost a peace. For several months there has been little actual fighting between the forces of King Stephen and those of Empress Maud, … |
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The devil’s novice
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Edith Pargeter |
A priestly envoy disappears, a skittish novice arrives and Cadfael works out what it all means. |
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The hermit of Eyton Forest
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Edith Pargeter |
This Cadfael mystery is more about mediaeval law and crime, and the first civil war in England, with the Empress Matilda and King Stephen as the belligerents, than about detection with the monk Cad… |
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Dead Man's Ransom
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Edith Pargeter |
In February of 1141, men march home from war to Shrewsbury, but the captured sheriff Gilbert Prestcote is not among them. Elis, a young Welsh prisoner, is delivered to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Sa… |
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The heretic’s apprentice
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Edith Pargeter |
This book examines what true piety is. The main character is the apprentice of a man, now dead, who is suddenly accused of having been a heretic.
In this book, Edith Pargeter (aka Ellis Peters), th… |
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Monk's Hood
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Edith Pargeter |
A stiff-necked old man deeds his estate to Shrewsbury Abbey, then dies via poison in a meal sent over by the abbey. Among the suspects Cadfael must work through are himself for brewing the poison an… |
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