Monk's Hood
by:
Ellis Peters (author)
When a visitor to the abbey dies, Brother Cadfael faces a personal drama. For not only was the man poisoned by monk's hood oil, made in Cadfael's own laboratory, the dead man's widow is also the woman to whom Cadfael was betrothed before he took his vows.
When a visitor to the abbey dies, Brother Cadfael faces a personal drama. For not only was the man poisoned by monk's hood oil, made in Cadfael's own laboratory, the dead man's widow is also the woman to whom Cadfael was betrothed before he took his vows.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780446403009 (0446403008)
Publish date: November 1st 1992
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Series: Brother Cadfael Mysteries (#3)
The Brother Cadfael series slowly becomes my favorite comfort read series. It´s so cozy and heartwarming and I love Brother Cadfael as a character. He is a genuinely good person and and he loves to help people when they are in dire need of help. And the fact that he is Welsh makes him even more symp...
I finished this two days ago, which means the details are fuzzy at this point. It's excellently written, of course, and the plotting equally well done. Peters was clever; obfuscating the murderer with ease and subtlety. I resisted this series for a long time; I like historical mysteries, but t...
(this and Death on the Water are going to be part of the Bookish Halloween bingo but I need to do some finessing tonight with them before being done, that and decide what squares they're going to be for) I believe I've seen this one at some stage so much of the plot was known to me before reading....
I know that I previously mentioned that I had signed up for scribd. One of the big reasons that I decided to take the plunge and pay the $8.99 per month for the subscription was that the entire Brother Cadfael series was available. I read the first book, A Morbid Taste for Bones, years ago when I...
I really, really liked the book, but I LOVE Cadfael. Cadfael gets ten stars. These books may be classified as stand-alones,but I believe you should read them in order, starting with the second book. Why? Because it is important to know who each one of the characters really is, their souls, what make...