Brother Cadfael · Book 3
Monk's Hood
- Published
- 1 January 1980
- Pages
- 268
- ISBN-13
- 9780708908297
- Type
- novel
About this book
Monk's Hood, published in 1980 at 268 pages, sits between One Corpse Too Many and Saint Peter's Fair as the third Brother Cadfael mystery. Like the rest of the series, it draws Cadfael's investigation into the daily life of Shrewsbury Abbey, where his past as a soldier of fortune gives him a worldliness few of his fellow monks share.
Its place in Brother Cadfael
Monk's Hood is book 3 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows One Corpse Too Many. It is followed by Saint Peter's Fair. 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 9780708908297