The Holy Thief
- Published
- 1 January 1992
- Pages
- 286
- ISBN-13
- 9781306965453
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Holy Thief, published in 1992 at 286 pages, sits between The Summer of the Danes and the series' finale, Brother Cadfael's Penance. Fifteen years into the sequence, Peters was still drawing on real medieval-history rigor to ground Cadfael's investigation in the daily life of Shrewsbury Abbey.
Key facts about The Holy Thief
Ellis Peters wrote The Holy Thief, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1992. The book has 286 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781306965453 to find the main one.
The Holy Thief is book 20 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. Meanwhile, Brother Cadfael's Penance is the latest published Ellis Peters book on file, from 1994.
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
The Holy Thief is book 20 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows The Summer of the Danes. It is followed by Brother Cadfael's Penance. 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 9781306965453