Ellis Peters

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

Outside the pale of the Abbey of Saint Peters and Saint Paul, in September of the year of our Lord 1140, a priestly emissary for King Stephen has been reported missing...

In the middle of the abbey's evening services, an angry mob pursues a young boy into the sacred peace of the sanctuary....

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.....

This collection of recordings about Brother Cadfaelóa Benedictine monk and amateur sleuth in the 12th centuryó are performed here by the ideal actor....

Shortly after he inherits the powerful position of Lord of Eaton, 10-year-old Richard Ludel disappears from Shrewsbury Abbey, where he had been a student. Did he run away or was he kidnapped....

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....

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

This is the eleventh chronicle of Brother Cadfael, of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury....

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

King Stephen's bloody siege against the town of Shrewsbury has reduced many of its stores and homes to rubble....

Helmut Schauffler, a young Nazi working in the small English village of Comerford, sets out to play upon the post-war sensibilities and fears by terrorizing his new neighbors....

The nearing December-May marriage between a wealthy merchant and a resigned bride has one of the lepers at Saint Giles nursing bitter plans for revenge....

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

Christmas, 1141 A.D. Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross (known as the Foregate), a man of presence...

The year is 1142, and all England is in the iron grip of civil war.....

A wealthy widow rents her house to the Shrewsbury Abbey for the price of a single rose cut from the bush near the house....

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

On a spring evening in 1140 Shrewsbury, the midnight matins at the Benedictine abbey suddenly reverberate with an unholy sound—a hunt in full cry....

A late spring in 1142 has the Abbey monks dismayed, for there may be no roses by June 22nd....