Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles: 21 cosy medieval whodunnits featuring classic crime’s most unique detective

by Ellis Peters

Publisher:

Head of Zeus

, 2016

Overview

THE COMPLETE CADFAEL CHRONICLES: 21 ebooks in one

Discover Brother Cadfael: Former soldier. Benedictine monk. Amateur sleuth.

Cadfael ap Meilyr ap Dafydd (known simply as Brother Cadfael) is a Welsh monk, herbalist and apothecary of Shrewsbury Abbey. He entered the Benedictine order in 1120 after sixteen years in the armies of Britain and Normandy. As a soldier and sea captain he fought in the Holy Land, serving at the fall of Antioch and the storming of Jerusalem. As a young man, he was betrothed to Richildis Gurney, but never married. He has an illegitimate son, Olivier de Bretagne, by the Saracen widow Mariam of Antioch.

Now the Abbey herbalist – a healer and skilled observer of human nature – Brother Cadfael, is called upon to use his more worldly talents in pursuit of justice.

The Cadfael Chronicles, by Diamond Dagger winner Ellis Peters, follow the medieval mysteries of one of classic crime’s most unique detectives.

This ebook contains:

A RARE BENEDICTINE: The Advent of Brother Cadfael
A MORBID TASTE FOR BONES
ONE CORPSE TOO MANY
MONK’S HOOD
SAINT 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 CONFESSION OF BROTHER HALUIN
THE HERETIC’S APPRENTICE
THE POTTER’S FIELD
THE SUMMER OF THE DANES
THE HOLY THIEF
BROTHER CADFAEL’S PENANCE

Contents

A RARE BENEDICTINE: The Advent of Brother Cadfael.

A MORBID TASTE FOR BONES.

ONE CORPSE TOO MANY.

MONK’S HOOD.

SAINT 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 CONFESSION OF BROTHER HALUIN.

THE HERETIC’S APPRENTICE.

THE POTTER’S FIELD.

THE SUMMER OF THE DANES.

THE HOLY THIEF.

BROTHER CADFAEL’S PENANCE.

Product Details

• Title: Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles
• Author: Ellis Peters
• Series: The Cadfael Chronicles
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 5208
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781786694744, 1786694743
• Resource ID: LLS:9781786694744
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T12:55:24Z

About Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters is a pseudonym of Edith Mary Pargeter (1913–1995), a British author whose Chronicles of Brother Cadfael are credited with popularizing the historical mystery. Cadfael, a Welsh Benedictine monk living at Shrewsbury Abbey in the first half of the twelfth century, has been described as combining the curious mind of a scientist with the bravery of a knight-errant. The character has been adapted for television, and the books drew international attention to Shrewsbury and its history.
 
Pargeter won an Edgar Award in 1963 for Death and the Joyful Woman, and in 1993 she won the Cartier Diamond Dagger, an annual award given by the Crime Writers’ Association of Great Britain. She was appointed officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1994, and in 1999 the British Crime Writers’ Association established the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger award, later called the Ellis Peters Historical Award.