Tag: mystery

I’ve read the entire 21-volume Brother Cadfael series twice. Set in a 12th-century monastery and surrounding towns, it’s never too violent or horrible, and is well-written and entertaining. The Internet Archive has multiple copies of most of these books. Whenever possible, I’ve linked to a copy that’s available for 14-day borrow.

Borrow for free. The first volume in the 20-book Brother Cadfael medieval murder mystery series. The Prior of Shrewsbury Abbey in 12th-century Shropshire, England, wants the abbey to acquire a saint’s bones for the chapel there, so as to encourage pilgrimages and thus increase glory and earnings. When he can’t find a saint available locally, he travels to Wales to disinter Saint Winifred….