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.
Key facts about Brother Cadfael's Penance
Ellis Peters wrote Brother Cadfael's Penance, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1994. The book has 346 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780745136660 to find the main one.
Brother Cadfael's Penance is book 21 of 21 in the Brother Cadfael series. The series has 21 published books. However, the series starts with A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977).
Additionally, Ellis Peters writes Inspector George Felse as a separate series. Those series sit on our historical mystery and cozy mystery shelves. It is also the latest published Ellis Peters book on file.
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
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