The Devil's Novice
by:
Ellis Peters (author)
Patrick Tull (narrator)
In the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds its new novice Meriet Aspley a bit disturbing. The younger son of a prominent family, Meriet is meek and biddable by day, but his sleep is rife with nightmares so violent that they earn him the name of "Devil's Novice". Shunned...
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In the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds its new novice Meriet Aspley a bit disturbing. The younger son of a prominent family, Meriet is meek and biddable by day, but his sleep is rife with nightmares so violent that they earn him the name of "Devil's Novice". Shunned by the other monks, Aspley attracts the concern of Brother Cadfael. Then a body appears, that of a young priest last seen at the Aspley estate. Can Meriet be involved in the death? As events take a sinister turn, it falls to Brother Cadfael to detect the truth.
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Format: audiobook
ASIN: B0031TQE0M
Publish date: 2009-12-23
Publisher: Recorded Books
Minutes: 517
Edition language: English
Series: Brother Cadfael Mysteries (#8)
bookshelves: film-only, tbr-busting-2013, winter-20132014, published-1983, series, mystery-thriller, play-dramatisation, medieval5c-16c, betrayal, britain-england Read on December 20, 2013 TV series with Derek JacobiDescription: In the autumn of 1140 the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury finds...
A perfectly adequate mystery. I don’t really have any complaints about it, but neither was it groundbreaking or astounding. It was a nice, undemanding vacation read – I’d read a couple of others in this series, and it was exactly what I expected. I enjoy the medieval/monastic setting.Here, a new nov...
Ellis Peters’, The Devil’s Novice, is the eighth in the Brother Cadfael series. These stories take place during the 1100’s civil war between King Stephen and Empress Matilda. A young gentleman is brought to the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury by his father and begs entry to the order and so the ...
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