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Brother Cadfael is a cult figure of crime fiction. FINANCIAL TIMES Ellis Peters is the creator of the most unusual detective in fiction. MAIL ON SUNDAY
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THE HOLY THIEF: At the height of the hot summer of 1144, the abbey at Ramsey is in danger. When heavy rain brings 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...BROTHER CADFAEL'S PENANCE: In the year of our Lord 1145, the bitter rift between King Stephen and Empress Maud at last has a chance of reconciliation, particularly the question of the prisoners of war. Brother Cadfael learns that amongst the prisoner is Olivier de Bretagne; his son. His determination to come to his son's aid prompts a perplexing investigation of a uniquely personal nature. A RARE BENEDICTINE: In these three vintage tales of intrigue and treachery: 'A Light on the Road to Woodstock,' 'The Price of Light' and 'Eye Witness,' emerges the events that have turned Cadfael from a crusading and seafaring past to the momentous decision of entering the Benedictine Order of the Abbey of St Peter and St Paul.
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Brother Cadfael's Exit, Dec 9 2009
By Stuart Thiel - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Seventh Cadfael Omnibus: Holy Thief, Brother Cadfael's Penance, AND A Rare Benedictine (Paperback)
The first five or six Brother Cadfael stories (First and Second Omnibusses) are great stuff -- charming, engaging. Then the author, like every other writer of a one-character mystery series since Conan Doyle, got to where she was trudging through the motions and repeating herself. Shrewsbury soon became 221B Baker Street, not an abbey; Cadfael and Hugh got to sounding like Abbott and Costello. But Ms. Peters redeemed herself with the last Cadfael novel, Brother Cadfael's Penance. You can tell she expected it to be the last one. Unlike in the previous dozen stories, you could believe that Cadfael could fail, or that he might have at last gone too far out on that secular limb. For the first time, you feel his faith and his distress that he might be expelled from the abbey. That he is the father of the knight Olivier really matters, not merely as a plot device. Hugh provides some comic relief, then blessedly goes home. And I, at least, remembered why somebody recommended Cadfael to me in the first place. May Ms. Peters rest in peace.
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Cadfael Omnibus 1-7, Feb 11 2011
By Irene Fife - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Seventh Cadfael Omnibus: Holy Thief, Brother Cadfael's Penance, AND A Rare Benedictine (Paperback)
Love, Love, Love Cadfael. I find Peters an excellent author who knows how to draw the reader into the story and the history of the time. When I finished, modern life was a shock. I wanted to sit down and have a conversation with Cadfael and Hugh.
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