Brother Cadfael · Book 16
The Confession of Brother Haluin
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 223
- ISBN-13
- 9781840323726
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Confession of Brother Haluin, published in 1988 at 223 pages, sits between the short-story prequel collection A Rare Benedictine and The Heretic's Apprentice. Like every entry in the series, it draws on Cadfael's decades as a soldier and sailor before he came to Shrewsbury Abbey, experience that shapes how he reads people and evidence alike.
Its place in Brother Cadfael
The Confession of Brother Haluin is book 16 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows A Rare Benedictine. It is followed by The Heretic's Apprentice. 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 9781504067553
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781840323726