Brother Cadfael · Book 1
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.
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