Brother Cadfael · Book 6
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.
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