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The Potter's Field: The Seventeenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780446400589
ISBN: 0446400580
Label: Mysterious Press
Manufacturer: Mysterious Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: September 01, 1991
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Studio: Mysterious Press
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The body of a woman is unearthed in the freshly plowed fields that once belonged to a local potter — now a Benedictine monk. The woman is revealed to be his beautiful young wife, thought to have run away. Medieval Benedictine monk Brother Cadfael must determine if one of his own order is guilty of the crime.
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Rating: - Cadfael With A Twist
When a newly tilled field recently given to the abbey yields the hastily buried body of a young woman, Brother Cadfael is soon involved in the matter. The field was once owned by Ruald, the local potter, who abandoned his beautiful young wife wife in favor of joining the abbey as a novice the previous year. The wife was rumored to have gone off with a new lover, but it now seems as though that may not have been the case.
THE POTTER'S FIELD, the seventeenth chronicle of Brother Cadfael, ... Read More
Rating:  - #17 an' still going strong?
The Pillars of the Earth
In the Brother Caedfael mysteries we get a very different
look at life in the 12th century from that given by Ken Follett.
In some ways I think Follett captured the feel of "life" better
in his failed historical novel than Ellis Peters does in his admittedly successful series?
We get a very different take on the local royalty and how they interacted with their peasants in a feudal setting.
In this novel someone dead and unsuspected is the ... Read More
Rating: - An intriguing read
This entry in the Brother Cadfael series presents a more complex tale of good, evil, and the grey area in between, than often is the case in this series. There is the usual happy ending in terms of the young couple united in the course of the story, but the resolution of the guilty party is surprising and somewhat unsettling.
Rating: - Not over until, well, yes it is!
In this book events are set in motion promptly with an inter-abbey swap of plots, a brother who has found his calling late, and another good man gone thanks to King Stephen's rashness. [And still they love him! Shakespeare was on to something.] As the story unfolds a skeletonized body is found and the hunt is on to identify it. A second son [he who doth not inherit] leads a tortured existence. A bride to be is less than angelic. All good stuff. The story proceeds apace until the denouement and then ... Read More
Rating: - Buried memories
In this 17th chronicle of the detective monk, Brother Cadfael is asked to help to identify the body of a woman who was discovered when the monks of the Abbey of St.Peter and St.Paul began to till a field which had just been donated to them. The field was previously occupied by Ruald, a local potter who abandoned his wife of many years to become a monk, claiming that he had a divine calling from God, and the fact that he was leaving his wife neither free nor widowed, was immaterial. Local rumour has ... Read More
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