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Barbara

Another good read

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 23 juillet 2023

Ellis Peters is a very skilful writer and I particularly enjoy the combination of a good story with historical facts.

Amazon Customer

One of the best in series

Commenté au Canada le 5 décembre 2020

Everything Ellis Peters writes is good. But this is one of the best in this series.

ealovitt

This fifth Brother Cadfael mystery introduces one of my favorite characters: Avice of Thornbury

Commenté aux États-Unis le 16 avril 2017

This 12th century mystery series by Ellis Peters take place in a fog of civil war, where the English and Welsh were raiding each other’s borders and supporting one or another claimant to the English throne: Empress Maud or King Stephen. In spite of the ongoing violence, the author suffuses her novels with a deep sense of peace and contentment in the monastic life. A monk from the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul at Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael, the ex-Crusader-turned herbalist is her solver of murders and mysteries of the heart. Ellis weaves a rich tapestry of his daily life on the war-torn Welsh border.

This fifth novel in a series of 21 mysteries, "The Leper of St. Giles," begins in October of 1139 with the makings of a good old-fashioned melodrama: a beautiful young heiress who is being forced into marriage with a wicked sixty-year-old baron. The baron demonstrates his caddishness by striking a leper with his whip as the wedding party passes Saint Giles, the abbey's lazar house.

Now the bride-to-be is secretly in love with one of the bad baron's squires, and he returns her love. Both wedding parties are staying at the abbey, and two nights before the wedding, Brother Cadfael interrupts an assignation between the young lovers in his workshop. He sympathizes with them, especially when the bride's guardian bursts in and drags her young charge off. The next morning, the wicked baron accuses his lovelorn squire of theft, and the youngster escapes imprisonment by plunging into the Severn river.

Cadfael must somehow reunite the young lovers, even after murder rears its ugly head. This is one of my favorite books in this memorable series. Two strong characters are introduced, one of whom will pop up several times further into the series: the mysterious leper, Lazarus and the bad baron's mistress, Avice of Thornbury.

I am sure that if you've read this far into the Brother Cadfael mysteries, you will want to continue to the end. It will be a very satisfying and worthwhile journey.

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Who is really.....

Commenté en Australie le 2 décembre 2018

One of the central characters but don't let me spoil the story for you readers who have not yet ventured into these delightful whodunits. While these books are a good and quick read, they always end on a joyful note and things settle back to the way they were. Which is not to say that they aren't worth reading of course!

V. Schafer

Good, easy read

Commenté aux États-Unis le 20 juin 2022

Just what I needed. A shorter mystery book. Very enjoyable. My first Cadfael mystery. Good for a summer beach read.