What a fascinating world of the 12th century that Ellis Peters created with The Brother Cadfael Chronicles; mysteries that involve the medieval monastery of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury.
The author snares me into these chronicles with the delightful way she presents to the reader the paced life of the medieval monastery, including description of weather and nature for the seasons, and the activities of Brother Cadfael in the herb gardens. I would have read them just for the historical setting, without a mystery of murder, but the way the mystery unravels with the telling of the story is always rewarding.
A Morbid Taste for Bones
One Corpse Too Many
Monks-Hood
St. Peter's Fair
The Leper of Saint Giles
The Virgin in the Ice
The Sanctuary Sparrow
The Devil's Novice
Dead Man's Ransom
The Pilgrim of Hate
An Excellent Mystery
The Raven in the Foregate
The Rose Rent
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
The Confessions of Brother Haluin
The Heretic's Apprentice
A Rare Benedictine
The Potter's Field
The Summer of the Danes
The Holy Thief
Published in 1992 was Ellis Peters' Shropshire. She traces the history and tells of her connections with the town of Shrewsbury which was the setting of the Brother Cadfael novels.
Robin Whiteman is the author of several books based on Ellis Peters' Cadfael Chronicles: Cadfael Country, The Cadfael Companion, Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden and Brother Cadfael's Book of Days.
Thirteen of the tales were made for a TV series starring Sir Derek Jacobi as Brother Cadfael and are available in VHS which I have with the collection of the novels.
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