A Morbid Taste For Bones
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- 17,99 €
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- 17,99 €
Publisher Description
In 1137 the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part of the expedition sent to her final resting place in Wales, where they find the villagers passionately divided by the Benedictines' offer for the saint's relics.
Canny, wise and all too worldly, Cadfael isn't surprised when this taste for bones leads to bloody murder. The leading opponent to moving the grave has been shot dead with a mysterious arrow, and some say Winifred herself dealt the blow. Brother Cadfael knows that a carnal hand did the killings, but he doesn't know that his plan to unearth a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice, where the wages of sin may be scandal - or his own ruin.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A medieval monk uses his wits to solve a murder in the kickoff of the immensely popular Brother Cadfael mystery series. After surviving the Crusades, Brother Cadfael wants nothing more than to tend to his monastery’s herb garden. But when he’s sent on a controversial mission to claim a Welsh saint’s body—and one of the quest’s opponents turns up murdered—the Benedictine monk must use all his varied experience and considerable charm to find the culprit. Author Ellis Peters brings a surprising and lively freshness to 12th-century British history. Without contemporary science like fingerprints, let alone DNA, her clever, charismatic hero has to draw on his deductive skills and expansive knowledge, and narrator Stephen Thorne employs his charming accent to play up Cadfael’s mischievous streak. A Morbid Taste for Bones is a historical whodunit for the ages.
