Brother Cadfael · Book 10
The Pilgrim of Hate
- Published
- 1 January 1984
- Pages
- 271
- ISBN-13
- 9781470886813
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Pilgrim of Hate, the tenth book in the series, was published in 1984 at 271 pages. Like the rest of Ellis Peters's Cadfael novels, it sets a self-contained murder investigation against the real historical backdrop of the civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud.
Its place in Brother Cadfael
The Pilgrim of Hate is book 10 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows Dead Man's Ransom. It is followed by An Excellent Mystery. 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 9780449212233
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781470886813