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ISBN : 0-7515-2081-0
First published in the UK 1997
Published in the UK by Warner Futura
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The Holy Thief
First Published 1992
At the height of the hot summer of 1144, the Earl of Essex succumbs
to a fatal arrow - but only after a lingering fever during which his
officials do their best to save him from hellfire by restoring properties
he has annexed, including the abbey of Ramsey. The abbey is in such
a sorry state that a call for help in restoring it goes out to all
the houses of the Benedictine Order. But when heavy rains bring the
threat of floods to Shrewsbury, and the holy relics must be removed
to a place of safety, the subsiding waters reveal a robbery has been
committed. The master sleuthing of Brother Cadfael is put to the test
once more, but to the crime of theft is soon added a murder...
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Brother Cadfael's Penance
First Published 1994
In the year of our Lord 1145, the bitter rift between King Stephen
and Empress Maud at last has a chance for reconciliation. A council
takes place between the two sides that is hoped will resolve the question
of prisoners of war. Brother Cadfael, ensconced in his herb garden
at the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, seeks leave to attend
the crucial meeting. For he has learned that among the prisoners is
one Oliver de Bretagne, a young man who calls upon loyalties even
higher than Cadfael's monastic vows.'Before I was a brother I was
a father,' Cadfael observes, and his determination to come to his
son's aid prompts a perplexing investigation of a uniquely personal
nature.
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A Rare Banedictine
First Published 1988
'A Light On The Road To Woodstock'
'The Price of Light'
'Eye Witness'
In these three vintage tales of intrigue and treachery, emerge
the events that turned Cadfael from a crusading and seafaring past
to the momentous decision of entering the Benedictine Order in the
Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul at Shrewsbury. This is the story
of Cadfael's conversion in the autumn of 1120. 'What happends to him
on the road to Woodstock is simply the acceptance of a revelation
from within that the life he has lived to date, active, mobile and
often violent, has reached it's natural end, and he is confronted
by a new need and a different challenge.'
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