A Morbid Taste for Bones
- Published
- 1 January 1977
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN-13
- 9780194791793
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Morbid Taste for Bones, published in 1977 at 208 pages, opens Ellis Peters's Brother Cadfael series and introduces its central figure: a Benedictine monk at Shrewsbury Abbey who came to the cloister late in life after decades as a Crusader and soldier of fortune, worldly experience that makes him the abbey's herbalist and its de facto detective. It sets the series against the real historical backdrop of 12th-century Shropshire.
Key facts about A Morbid Taste for Bones
Ellis Peters wrote A Morbid Taste for Bones, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1977. The book has 208 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780194791793 to find the main one.
A Morbid Taste for Bones is book 1 of 21 in the Brother Cadfael series. The series has 21 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Ellis Peters writes Inspector George Felse as a separate series. Those series sit on our historical mystery and cozy mystery shelves. Meanwhile, Brother Cadfael's Penance is the latest published Ellis Peters book on file, from 1994.
About Ellis Peters
Ellis Peters was the principal pen name of Edith Pargeter, a prolific British author best known for the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, a series of historical mysteries set in a twelfth-century Benedictine abbey in Shrewsbury, England, and featuring a Welsh monk who came to the cloister after a worldly life as a soldier and Crusader. See every Ellis Peters book in order.
Its place in Brother Cadfael
A Morbid Taste for Bones is book 1 in the Brother Cadfael series. It is followed by One Corpse Too Many. See the full Brother Cadfael reading order.
Brother Cadfael is a Benedictine monk at Shrewsbury Abbey in 1120s-1140s England who came to the cloister late in life, after decades as a Crusader, sailor and soldier of fortune — worldly experience that makes him the abbey's herbalist, its most perceptive judge of character, and its de facto detective whenever a body turns up on abbey grounds or in the surrounding Shropshire countryside. Working alongside (and sometimes at odds with) the local sheriff's officers, Cadfael investigates murders set against the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780708906590
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780194791793