Brother Cadfael · Book 20
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.
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