Brother Cadfael · Book 19
The Summer of the Danes
- Published
- 1 January 1991
- Pages
- 281
- ISBN-13
- 9780751511185
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Summer of the Danes, the eighteenth book in the series, was published in 1991 at 281 pages -- a two-year gap after The Potter's Field, longer than the roughly annual pace Ellis Peters had kept through most of the 1980s. It continues the series' real historical grounding in 12th-century Shropshire and the ongoing Stephen-and-Maud conflict.
Its place in Brother Cadfael
The Summer of the Danes is book 19 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows The Potter's Field. It is followed by The Holy Thief. 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 9780708869314
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751511185