Brother Cadfael · Book 7

The Sanctuary Sparrow

Published
1 January 1983
Pages
254
ISBN-13
9781441751676
Type
novel
Cover of The Sanctuary Sparrow

About this book

The Sanctuary Sparrow, the seventh entry, appeared in 1983 at 254 pages between The Virgin in the Ice and The Devil's Novice. Like the rest of the series, it draws Cadfael's investigative eye -- sharpened by decades as a Crusader and sailor before he took orders -- into a case touching Shrewsbury Abbey itself.

Key facts about The Sanctuary Sparrow

Ellis Peters wrote The Sanctuary Sparrow, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1983. The book has 254 pages.

We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781441751676 to find the main one.

The Sanctuary Sparrow is book 7 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 Sanctuary Sparrow is book 7 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows The Virgin in the Ice. It is followed by The Devil's Novice. 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…

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