The Virgin in the Ice
- Published
- 1 January 1982
- Pages
- 236
- ISBN-13
- 9780754011736
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Virgin in the Ice, published in 1982 at 236 pages, sits between The Leper of Saint Giles and The Sanctuary Sparrow as the sixth Cadfael mystery. Five years into the series, Peters was still pairing each self-contained case with the real historical stakes of the Anarchy unfolding in the background.
Key facts about The Virgin in the Ice
The Virgin in the Ice is a novel by Ellis Peters. Readers have had it since 1982. It runs to 236 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of The Virgin in the Ice. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780754011736 to find the main one.
The Virgin in the Ice is book 6 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 Virgin in the Ice is book 6 in the Brother Cadfael series. It follows The Leper of Saint Giles. It is followed by The Sanctuary Sparrow. 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 9780751547177
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780754011736