Cadfael, Brother (Fictitious character) -- Fiction

This is another title in the Brother Cadfael series featuring the medieval monk. Brother Cadfael leaves his Abbey to go in search of his son, Olivier de Bretagne, but finds that passions can all too easily spill over into violence and murder.

Meriet Aspley, the new novice at the Benedictine monastery, has nightmares so violent as to earn him the nickname of 'Devil's Novice'. Could he be involved in the nearby disappearance of a superior prelate? It is up to Cadfael to find out.

In 1141 England is still torn by the civil strife caused by the struggle for the throne between King Stephen and Empress Maud. Among the victims of the carnage is the Abbey of Hyde Mead, totally destroyed. Its brothers are scattered far and wide.

Brother Cadfael's tranquil life as a herbalist is disturbed by the arrival of a saintly hermit and the disappearance of a young boy.

Busy on an errand, Brother Cadfael has no time to think about the grand wedding which is to take place in the abbey church. The marriage does not look set to be a happy one, but before it can take place a savage killing occurs.

Gervase Bonel, with his wife and servants, is a guest of Shrewsbury Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul when he is suddenly taken ill. Luckily, the Abbey boasts the service of Brother Cadfael, a skilled herbalist. Cadfael hurries to the man's bedside, only to be confronted by two very different s...

After an appalling massacre on the walls of Shrewsbury, there are found to be ninety-five corpses when there should have been ninety-four. Brother Cadfael sets out to find the killer.

Brother Cadfael is asked to help identify a corpse found on Abbey Land and discovers that it is the least baffling facet of a mysterious murder. The year is 1143, and once again Brother Cadfael is forced to abandon the tranquility of his herb garden and use his knowledge of human nature to solve ...

12th century monastic sleuth Brother Cadfael tracks down criminals in three tales of his life before he entered a Benedictine monastery.

A young widow bestows a house on the local abbey in exchange for a single white rose to be delivered once annually. But someone is determined to stop the payment. In the summer of 1142, the rose is hacked down and a murdered man is left lying beside it.