a morbid taste for bones by ellis peters

Seriously, if you are a fan of Cadfael, I implore you – try this, this or this.

People always say, if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all. There may have been some minutiae that explained one particular piece of nonsense but, if I’m absolutely honest, I was speed-reading at this point. It takes an age to get going and when it finally does, the explanation for whodunnit is rather stupid. Just remembering it sent me to the Land of Nod for a while. Happened all the time when I was reading this book, as the prose style is so dull. But was it my callow youth and short attention span that dismissed these out of hand?

See, that’s him on the cover over there.īut once upon a time, I read a couple of these and wasn’t impressed. Given my predilection for the historical mystery, you may have considered it quite an oversight that I’ve yet to review anything from the Brother Cadfael series – after all, it was the first historical mystery series to be commercially successful (correct me if that’s wrong) and has been filmed with Derek Jacobi as Cadfael. But when the village leader ends up dead with an arrow sticking out of his chest, it’s up to Brother Cadfael, ex-crusader, current-herbalist and would-be sleuth to stick his nose to see if the murderer is someone from the village or someone from the monastery. He returns in One Corpse Too Many (1979), and. It features the monk and herbalist Brother Cadfael, who before taking his vows had been a lover, sailor, soldier, and fighter in the First Crusade. Naturally, the villagers aren’t best pleased, especially given Prior Robert’s lack of tact when trying to claim the bones. her to write the mystery A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977), set in the 12th century. Twelfth century Shrewsbury, and in the Benedictine monastery, the prior has the idea to take a party to a remote Welsh village to acquire the bones of Saint Winifrid – basically as they clearer belong in a monastery rather than an unmarked grave in a village.

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A morbid taste for bones by ellis peters