Brother Cadfael · Book 8
The Devil's Novice
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN-13
- 9780708826393
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Devil's Novice, published in 1983 at 192 pages, follows The Sanctuary Sparrow as the eighth Brother Cadfael novel, preceding Dead Man's Ransom. As in every book in the series, Cadfael's investigation plays out against the real historical unrest of the Anarchy convulsing 12th-century England.
Its place in Brother Cadfael
The Devil's Novice is book 8 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows The Sanctuary Sparrow. It is followed by Dead Man's Ransom. 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 9780708826393