by Ellis Peters
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...
Another great Cadfael mytery! The only downsides: a bit short, and little too obvious. Still, very enjoyable.
This is a yeoman's work mystery with a middle ages veil draped over it. Seriously, Ellis Peters' Monk's Hood felt like a throwaway whodunnit set in the medieval period. I know these are very popular, popular enough to have a tv series made from them, but I just don't see it. The whole thing could've...
This full-cast dramatization of the novel by Ellis Peters stars Philip Madoc as the medieval monk and sleuth, Brother Cadfael.The blurb - After the violence of civil war in the srping, Shrewsbury has enjoyed a quiet summer and a good harvest. But, as Cadfael reflects ruefully, such a peaceful state ...
[These notes were made in 1985:]. "A Medieval Whodunnit". Cadfael is a Welsh monk near the England/Wales border. He is also a shrewd observer, and he (as well as the people he observes) is humane if not fully human. In fact, Cadfael pretty much makes it to "human"; the suspects in the murder tend...
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