Ellis Peters
Author
Edition
Unabridged
Description
It is early in the twelfth century and the civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud rages with renewed vigor. In the battle of Lincoln, the sheriff of Shropshire is captured and the king himself is detained by his enemies. An exchange of prisoners is arranged: the sheriff will be bartered for a young Welsh lordling who has been captured during a misguided assault on a convent. All seems to be going according to plan until one of the prisoners...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Description
In the year of our Lord 1141, civil war over England's throne leaves a legacy of violence—and the murder of a knight dear to Brother Cadfael. In the spring, a flood of pilgrims comes to the celebration of Saint Winifred at the Abbey, carrying with it many strange souls...and perhaps the knight's killer.
Brother Cadfael's shrewd eyes see all: the prosperous merchant who rings false; an angelic, lame boy and his beautiful, dowerless
...Author
Series
Brother Cadfael volume Book 20
Pub. Date
c1994
Description
In 12th Century Britain, Brother Cadfael searches for his son, Olivier de Bretagne, taken prisoner in a war between the grandchildren of William the Conqueror. In the process he discovers intrigue and murder. By the author of The Holy Thief.
15) Monk's hood
Author
Series
Chronicles of Brother Cadfael volume 3
Pub. Date
1981, ©1980
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Author
Pub. Date
p1994, c1984
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
England's Civil War seems to be coming to its bloody close when two young men come to Brother Cadfael's seeking miracles on the occasion of the Feast of St. Winifred. Brother Cadfael suspects there is more to their relationship, and when his old friend comes with tales of murder, he is suspicious indeed.