In the Welsh mountain village of Gwytherin lies the grave of Saint Winifred. Now, in 1137, the head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the remains for his Benedictine Order. Brother Cadfael is sent on the expedition to translate and finds the villagers of Gwytherin divided by the Benedictine's offer for the saint's relics. Canny and all too worldly, he isn't surprised when this taste for bones leads to bloody murder. The leading opponent to moving the grave has been shot dead with a mysterious arrow and some say Winifred herself held the bow. Brother Cadfael knows this is a carnal killing but he doesn't know his plan to unearth a murderer might dig up a case of love and justice - where the wages of sin may be scandal or Cadfael's ruin.
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Fantastic country mansion Follymead is hosting a folk music weekend course. Most musos and singers are there to play, sing and listen. But passions and murder are brewing in this sylvan setting. Tossa Barber and her boyfriend Dominic Felse are amongst the students, and when disaster strikes, Dominic engages the aid of his father, D.I. George Felse, to unravel the tangle of events. -
Book XX of Brother Cadfael. November 1145 - the bitter rift between King Stephen and Empress Maud at last has achance for reconciliation. With both sides pndering the wisdom of further conflict, they agree that a council should take place. It is hoped that the meeting will at least resolve the question prisoners of war, a number of whom were taken following the shocking defection to the King’s cousin Philip, younger son of the Earl of Gloucester. Brother Cadfael seeks leave to attend the meeting - he has learned that among the prisoners is one Olivier de Bretagne, a young man who calls upon loyalties even higher than Cadfael’s monastic vows. As Cadfael observes, ‘Before I was a brother, I was a father…’ and his determination to come to his son’s aid prompts a perplexing investigation of a uniquely personal nature. -
Dr. Alan Morris, world-renowned archaeologist, is not the sort to go missing. He had travelled the world for forty years investigating ruins, so it would not seem that the Welsh border site of Aurae Phiala would pose any problems. Charlotte Rossignol, a pretty young music teacher and Dr. Morris's heir, is distressed. She feels her great-uncle is in danger and begins her own investigation. Among the ruins of Aurae Phiala, Charlotte finds a curious history, and much more to be excavated than just Roman ruins. From the creator of Cadfael.
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Book IX of Brother Cadfael. The year is 1141 and civil war continues to rage. When the sheriff of Shropshire is taken prisoner, arrangements are made to exchange him for Elis, a young Welshman. But when the sheriff is brought to the abbey, he is murdered. Suspicion falls on Elis, who has fallen in love with the sheriff's daughter. With nothing but his Welsh honor to protect him, Elis appeals to Brother Cadfael for help. And Brother Cadfael gives it, not knowing that the truth will be a trial for his own soul. -
Landlords are never the most popular people, and there is little grief when the greedy, ruthless Mahendralal Bakhle is blown up in his boat on beautiful Periyar Lake. Suspicion falls on the boat-boy who died with him but Dominic Felse, a member of a party of young tourists who were accidentally involved with the tragedy, is not convinced of the boy's guilt. And when they move on, it seems the terror is still pursuing them. Violence and death erupt in the home of a very different landowner, where Dominic and his friends are guests, and follow them relentlessly south to the very tip of India where Dominic and the Swam Premanathanand, a man of peace, unravel a deadly Indian rope trick of hatred and murder.
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It should have been a wonderful holiday for the four young people traveling to Venice. Everyone's so friendly - particularly the charming elderly gentleman who shares his first-class railway carriage with them for part of the way. So it was a shock to find, on arriving in Turin, that their elderly travelling companion has been the victim of robbery with violence. They continue on their way with dampened spirits, only to find that trouble is following them. They have inadvertently walked off with the crucial evidence of a more serious crime - and someone desperately wants to retrieve it. -
Gervase Bonel is a guest of Shrewsbury Abbey when he is suddenly taken ill. Brother Cadfael , the Abbey's skilled herbalist, hurries to the man’s bedside to find two surprises...Master Bonel’s wife is Richildis, whom Cadfael loved before he took his vows; and Master Bonel has been fatally poisoned by monk’s-hood oil from Cadfael’s stores. The sheriff is convinced that the murderer is Richildis’ son, Edwin, who hated his stepfather. But Cadfael, guided in part by his concern for a woman to whom he was once betrothed, is certain of her son’s innocence. Using his knowledge of both herbs and the human heart, Cadfael deciphers a deadly recipe for murder. -
Chronicles of Brother Cadfael II. In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden into a battlefield of passions, deceptions and death. Not far from the safety of the abbey walls, Shrewsbury Castle falls, leaving its ninety-four defenders loyal to the empress to hang as traitors. With a heavy heart, Brother Cadfael agrees to bury the dead, only to make a grisly discovery: one extra victim that has been strangled, not hanged.