The Leper Of Saint Giles: 5 (The Cadfael Chronicles) - Softcover

Ellis Peters

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751547123 ISBN 13: 9780751547122

Publisher: Sphere, 2011

Synopsis

Brother Cadfael sets out to visit the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, knowing that a grand wedding is due to take place at the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. As he arrives at Saint Giles the nuptial party passes the colony's gates. He sees the fragile bride, looking like a prisoner between her two stern guardians, and the groom, an arrogant, fleshy aristocrat old enough to be her grandfather. With his usual astuteness he suspects that this union may be more damned than blessed. He is horrifically proved right when a savage murder disrupts the May-December marriage leaving Brother Cadfael with a dark and terrible mystery to solve. For the key to the killing - and a secret - are hidden among the lepers of Saint Giles and Brother Cadfael's skills must diagnose a sickness, not of the body, but of a twisted soul.

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Review:

"Successful and gripping . . . Once again Ellis Peters has combined a proper, carefully plotted detective story with a carefully detailed, convincing evocation of medieval life." --The Times Literary Supplement

"There's grey matter under that tonsure and oodles of scholarly medieval info to be gleaned." --The Observer

"Cunningly contrived with a great sense of period detail." --The Yorkshire Post

Book Description:

In his fifth chronicle Brother Cadfael is called away from his herb garden to investigate a savage killing on the eve of a noble wedding.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sphere
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0751547123
• ISBN 13: 9780751547122
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320