About this title: In the gentle Shrewsbury spring of 1140, the midnight matins at the Benedictine abbey suddenly reverberate with an unholy sound- a hunt in full cry. Persued by a drunken mob, the quarry is running for its life. When the frantic creature bursts into the nave to claim sanctuary, Brother Cadfael finds himself fighting off armed townsmen to save a terrified young man. Accused of robbery and murder is Liliwin, a wandering minstrel who performed at the wedding of a local goldsmith's son. The cold light of morning, however, will show his supposed victim, the miserly craftsman, still lives, although ...
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Fawcett Books, New York
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780449206133ISBN:0449206130
Description: Fair. Brother Cadfael mystery (7th chronicle). Reprint. Fair to good copy, old price sticker on the front, clear tape across the lower spine. read more
Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Mysterious Press
ISBN-13:9780446404297ISBN:0446404292
Description: Very Good. 0446404292 Mass Market Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light curve to the spine / light reading creases to the covers. read more
Binding: Book Club HC
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Date Published: 1983
Description: Grade: C. Catalog: Mystery General Synopsis: 181 pages. Murderous though they be, the Ellis Peters books set in 12th-century Britain have the freshness of a new world at dawn...Peters weaves a... read more
Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Mysterious Press
ISBN-13:9780446404297ISBN:0446404292
Description: Very Good. 0446404292 Mass Market Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light discoloration due to aging and other light wear. read more
"I suppose I could write the same review for all of them, but since this is the one I just finished, I'll start here. Cadfael is, as always, a fantastic character, and the medieval world is very well realized. This particular mystery was pretty well done--sometimes she makes it pretty easy to guess who's responsible, but this time I had to put a couple of things together to guess as early as I did.
The key, though, to Ellis Peters, is that she isn't a craftsman of plot so much as character and setting. She won't write the most intricate and twisted Agatha Christie solutions--if you're the sort who only likes a mystery until you can guess whodunit, you might never finish a Cadfael. But if the complicated world of a savvy yet pious monk during the midst of a 12th century civil war in England sounds like a fun place to hang out (and it really is, for me), I'd advocate reading all of them (at least, I've hit #7, and there's been, in my opinion, really no dip in quality since the first one)."
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