DescriptionIn October 1142, a landlord gives the clergy a field previously owned by a potter named Ruald, now a monk himself. Benedictine monks, plowing, uncover a body dead a year or more, setting off a mystery that Brother Cadfael, herbalist and student of medicine, cannot resist as it grows complex and involves the missing, beautiful wife of Ruald.
DescriptionIt is mid-December in the year 1141 and a new priest, Father Ailnoth, a harsh and callous man, arrives at Holy Cross, outside the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. His accompanying train includes his housekeeper and her nephew, Benet. Gentle Benet, quite the opposite of Father Ailnoth, spends his days working in Brother Cadfael's herb garden. After Father Ailnoth is found murdered, suspicion falls on Benet. Now Brother Cadfael must sort out the complicated strands of innocence and guilt. This medieval whodunit has Peters' usual richness of detail, intricacy of plot, and satisfying characterization.
DescriptionSara Joslyn travels to Branson, Missouri, "the new Nashville, " to cover the trial of Ray Jones, a country-western star accused of rape and murder. She's also hoping to scoop her former employer, the sleazy tabloid, the Weekly Galaxy .
DescriptionIn 1141 A.D., the celebration of Saint Winifred brings a flood of pilgrims, and possibly a murderer, to town. Shrewdly, a perspicacious Cadfael unwinds the twisted tale, discovers a plot of retribution, and once again becomes caught up in medieval evil.
DescriptionThere's been a murder at the Manor! At this stately home, now open for public tours, visitors revel in the lush atmosphere created by its three hundred rooms, its exceptional display of fine china, its chilling dungeon with historic suits of armor on di…
DescriptionSister Anne may have been thrown down the convent's cellar stairs, shortly after dinnertime on a Wednesday evening. But who would want to murder a cloistered nun? And how could it be that she was seen later that evening participating in the Vespers service, when the medical examiner's decision is that she was already dead by that time? When sardonic Inspector C.D. Sloan is called to the convent to investigate the death, he finds himself dismayed on three counts. First, all fifty-some nuns in their black habits look alike to him. Secondly, their spiritual discipline of keeping eyes averted and minding their own business makes them very poor witnesses to the crime. And third, each nun has an assumed name and a past, secular life. Sloan and his sidekick, the well-meaning Crosby, set out to discover who is the murderer and what, pray tell, was the motive.
DescriptionIn the year 1141, two monks have arrived in Shrewsbury after their abbey in Winchester is destroyed. Brother Humilis, who is very ill, and Brother Fidelis, who is mute, seek refuge at the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. From the moment that he meets them, Brother Cadfael believes that something deeper than their common vows binds the two brothers. As Brother Humilis' health fails, Brother Cadfael faces a test of beliefs, as he must distinguish between the innocent and the guilty.
DescriptionA tale of illicit sex, murder, and treachery in the highly popular Brother Cadfael series. Brother Haluin, apparently on his deathbed, makes a shocking confession to Brother Cadfael. Eighteen years previously, he had given his lover herbs to abort the baby she was carrying, but the girl died, instead. Brother Haluin makes an unexpected recovery, and decides he must make a journey of expiation. It is up to Brother Cadfael to untangle the threads binding the past to the present in order to avoid yet another tragedy.
DescriptionBrother Cadfael searches for his own endangered son, and in so doing, forsakes his order and boldly defies his abbot. What he finds challenges his soul. It is autumn 1145, and the battle rages between Empress Maud and her cousin Stephen for the throne of England. One who previously had been among Empress Maud's greatest champions, Sir Philip FitzRobert, has turned coat and imprisoned thirty knights and squires who stayed loyal to the empress. One still held is Olivier de Bretagne, who is not aware that he is the son of Brother Cadfael. Word reaches Cadfael that Olivier's life is in peril. Brother Cadfael decides to leave the monastery without his abbot's permission; he must break his monastic vows in order to try to save his son's life. Cadfael must find his son before it is too late.
DescriptionThis audiobook contains three tales of intrigue and treachery that let the listener hear Cadfael at the best of his sleuthing form and chronicle the events that led Brother Cadfael into the Benedictine Order. The three tales are: "A Light on the Road to Woodstock" in which Cadfael makes his transition from soldier to cleric; "The Price of Light" in which a harsh and self-indulgent manor lord seeks divine help from the brothers of the abbey at Shrewsbury to counter the effects of a mild seizure; and "Eye Witness" in which the abbey's rent collector is found in the river nearly drowned after having been robbed, beaten, and left for dead.
