Brother Cadfael · Book 15
A Rare Benedictine
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 150
- ISBN-13
- 9781784080501
- Type
- collection
About this book
A Rare Benedictine, published in 1988, is a standalone entry in Brother Cadfael without a numbered position, arriving between The Hermit of Eyton Forest and The Confession of Brother Haluin.
Its place in Brother Cadfael
A Rare Benedictine is book 15 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows The Hermit of Eyton Forest. It is followed by The Confession of Brother Haluin. 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 9781784080501