Brother Cadfael · Book 13
The Rose Rent
- Published
- 1 January 1986
- Pages
- 239
- ISBN-13
- 9781504798310
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Rose Rent, the thirteenth entry, was published in 1986 at 239 pages. Nearly a decade into the series, Ellis Peters was still setting each self-contained Cadfael mystery against the real historical texture of Shrewsbury Abbey and the ongoing Anarchy between Stephen and Maud.
Its place in Brother Cadfael
The Rose Rent is book 13 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows The Raven in the Foregate. It is followed by The Hermit of Eyton Forest. 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 9780449214954
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781504798310