Brother Cadfael · Book 21
Brother Cadfael's Penance
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 346
- ISBN-13
- 9780745136660
- Type
- novel
About this book
Brother Cadfael's Penance closes out the twenty-book series, published in 1994 at 346 pages -- the longest entry in the sequence. It brings to a close a series built on the real historical backdrop of the Anarchy and on Cadfael himself, the worldly ex-Crusader turned herbalist-detective whose faith and worldliness coexist rather than conflict.
Its place in Brother Cadfael
Brother Cadfael's Penance is book 21 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows The Holy Thief. 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 9780745136660