Brother Cadfael · Book 14
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 242
- ISBN-13
- 9780754015901
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Hermit of Eyton Forest, the fourteenth book in the series, was published in 1987 at 242 pages. It continues Ellis Peters's pairing of a self-contained whodunit with the genuine historical stakes of 12th-century Shropshire, investigated by a monk whose Crusader past makes him unusually worldly for the cloister.
Its place in Brother Cadfael
The Hermit of Eyton Forest is book 14 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows The Rose Rent. It is followed by A Rare Benedictine. 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 9780754024514
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780754015901