Monk's Hood (Cadfael Chronicles): 3

Monk's Hood (Cadfael Chronicles): 3

by EllisPeters (Author)

Synopsis

Gervase Bonel, with his wife and servants, is a guest of Shrewsbury Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul when he is suddenly taken ill. Luckily, the Abbey boasts the services of the clever and kindly Brother Cadfael, a skilled herbalist. Cadfael hurries to the man's bedside, only to be confronted by two very different surprises. In Master Bonel's wife, he good monk recognises Richildis, whom he loved many years ago before he took his vows, and Master Bonel has been fatallly poisoned by a dose of deadly monk's-hood oil from Cadfael's herbarium. The Sherrif is convinced that the murdered is Richildis' son Edwin, who had reasons aplenty to hate his stepfather. But Cadfael, guided in part by his tender concern for a woman to whom he was once betrothed, is certain of her son's innocence. Using his knowledge of both herbs and the human heart, Cadfael deciphers a deadly recipe for murder.

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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 19 May 1994

ISBN 10: 075151103X
ISBN 13: 9780751511031
Prizes: Winner of CWA Silver Dagger for Fiction 1980.

Media Reviews
A more attractive and preposessing detective would be hard to find -Sunday Times
Author Bio
Ellis Peters is one of the pseudonyms of Edith Pargeter who wrote several books under her own name and also Peter Benedict, Jolyon Carr and John Redfern. She was the recipient of the Crime Writers Association and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award. She died in 1995.