Brother Cadfael · Book 18
The Potter's Field
- Published
- 1 January 1989
- Pages
- 198
- ISBN-13
- 9780747229308
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Potter's Field, published in 1989 at 198 pages, arrives between The Heretic's Apprentice and The Summer of the Danes as the seventeenth entry. Like the rest of the series, its self-contained case is investigated by a monk whose late calling to the cloister, after decades as a Crusader, makes him the abbey's sharpest reader of character.
Its place in Brother Cadfael
The Potter's Field is book 18 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows The Heretic's Apprentice. It is followed by The Summer of the Danes. 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 9780747229308