Ellis Peters

Cadfael's return to his Welsh homeland for a visit proves a rather discomfiting homecoming when an honorable nobleman turns up in a patch of forest with an arrow embedded in his chest....

In 1137 the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for his Benedictine order....

The death of unpopular Herbert Terrell seems accidental - although this expert mountain climber plunged off a mere hill in Czechoslovakia....

The day after a Gothic door is returned to its original place in the Mottisham village church, two men are found dead....

A collection of chronicles including The Summer of the Danes, Brother Cadfael's Penance, The Heretic's Apprentice, Monk's Hood, The Potter's Field, Saint Peter's Fair....

Sparks fly when two famous folksingers and former lovers encounter each other at a folk music seminar....

Brother Cadfael finds himself caught up in a bitter feud between two royal brother whose armies teeter on the brink of civil war....

In search of a missing uncle, Charlotte Rossignol travels to the ancient Roman site of Aurae Phiala on the Welsh border, where she is assisted in her search and the solution to a murder by Inspector Felse....

Despite all evidence, world-class singer Maggie Tressider is convinced that she has killed someone....

A mysterious pair of monks, whose abbey has burned down, have come to Shrewbury seeking refuge....

When a fatal draught of Monk's Hood turns up in the dinner plate of a guest at the Shrewsbury abbey, fingers point at half a dozen likely suspects, including an abashed and bewildered Cadfael.....

Alfred Armiger was like a bull in the ring, belligerent and sure of himself.....

Civil war continues to blaze in the autumn of 1139. Amid the uncertainty and peril of the moment two noble children make their escape, headed for Shrewsbury....

It is early in the twelfth century, and the civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud rages with renewed vigor....

When the village of Shrewsbury's own sheriff, Gilbert Prestcote, is taken prisoner by the Empress Maud's forces, its citizens are prepared to exchange him for a man of equal value they have within their possession....

It is the Summer and Autumn of the Year of Our Lord 1143 in which the gentle monk, Brother Cadfael, is forced to leave the tranquility of his herb garden....

After years of studying with the Bishop, young Father Ailnoth has come to take over the parish of Holy Cross....

When the castle of Shrewsbury is taken during the war between Empress Maud and King Stephen, 94 prisoners are taken, 94 are hanged....

Setting out for the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael has more pressing matters on his mind than the grand wedding coming to his abbey...

A onetime Crusader turned Benedictine monk, Brother Cadfael is a most unusual detective....