An Excellent Mystery

Author : Ellis Peters
Publisher : Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
ISBN 13 : 9781504067485
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Excellent Mystery written by Ellis Peters and published by Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sunny month of August, A.D. 1141, Brother Cadfael is presented with a double mystery set against the larger drama enacted by King Stephen and his arch-enemy, cousin, and rival claimant to the throne, the Empress Maud. In the bloody struggle for the crown, Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester and papal legate, is drawn into a contretemps that will result in a town laid waste, a nunnery burned to the ground, churches razed, and the priory of Hyde Mead engulfed in flames. Hence the arrival of Brothers Humilis and Fidelis to the abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul at Shrewsbury. Humilis, the elder of the pair, has entered the cloister because of the profound injuries he suffered during the Crusades. His companion and friend is a retiring youth whose perfect devotion to Humilis is made all the more poignant by his muteness. Concerned with the fragile condition of Humilis's health, Cadfael comes to his assistance with his prodigious skills as an herbalist -- and as a friend. - Jacket flap.

Author : Ellis Peters
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497671353
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Excellent Mystery written by Ellis Peters and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “enchanting” historical mystery, “medieval England comes marvelously alive” as Brother Cadfael investigates a woman’s baffling disappearance (The Washington Post). In the year of our Lord 1141, August comes in golden as a lion, and two monks ride into the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul bringing with them disturbing news of war—and a mystery. The strangers tell how the strife between the Empress Maud and King Stephen has destroyed the town of Winchester and their priory. Now Brother Humilis, who is handsome, gaunt, and very ill, and Brother Fidelis, youthful, comely—and totally mute—must seek refuge at Shrewsbury. From the moment he meets them, Brother Cadfael senses something deeper than common vows binds these two good brothers. What the link is he can only guess. What it will lead to is beyond his imagining. As Brother Humilis’s health fails—and nothing can stop death’s lengthening shade—Brother Cadfael faces a poignant test of his discretion and his beliefs as he unravels a secret so great it can destroy a life, a future, and a holy order. “Unflagging tension which builds to a swift, satisfying climax. Peters never disappoints [with] her absorbing, superbly crafted stories.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Sue Grafton
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330507176
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book S is for Silence written by Sue Grafton and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S is for Silence is the nineteenth in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series by Sue Grafton. Just after Independence Day in July 1953 Violet Sullivan, a local good time girl living in Serena Station Southern California, drives off in her brand new Chevy and is never seen again. Left behind is her young daughter, Daisy, and Violet's impetuous husband, Foley, who had been persuaded to buy his errant wife the car only days before . . . Now, thirty-five years later, Daisy wants closure. Reluctant to open such an old cold case Kinsey Millhone agrees to spend five days investigating, believing at first that Violet simply moved on to pastures new. But very soon it becomes clear that a lot of people shared a past with Violet, a past that some are still desperate to keep hidden. And in a town as close-knit as Serena there aren't many places to hide when things turn vicious . . .

Author : Ellis Peters
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780333393130
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Excellent Mystery written by Ellis Peters and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1141, two monks bearing news of war and destruction arrive in Shrewsbury, where Brother Cadfael discovers that the pair harbors secrets so great that they could destroy a life, a future, and a holy order.

Author : Ellis Peters
Publisher : Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
ISBN 13 : 9781504001977
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monk's Hood written by Ellis Peters and published by Chronicles of Brother Cadfael. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealthy landowner is poisoned while staying at the abbey, and when Brother Cadfael is called upon to identify the poison, he is shocked to discover the victim's wife is his own childhood sweetheart.

Author : Ellis Peters
Publisher : ISIS Audio Books
ISBN 13 : 9781445016283
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Morbid Taste for Bones written by Ellis Peters and published by ISIS Audio Books. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1137 the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part of the expedition sent to her final resting place in Wales, where they find the villagers passionately divided by the Benedictines' offer. Canny and all too worldly, Cadfael isn't surprised when this taste for bones leads to bloody murder. The leading opponent to moving the grave has been shot dead with a mysterious arrow, and some say Winifred herself dealt the blow. Brother Cadfael knows that a carnal hand did the killings, but he doesn't know that his plan to unearth a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice.

Author : Alister McGrath
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1473634342
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Mystery written by Alister McGrath and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is currently huge interest in the question of human nature and identity, and what the human future might look like. Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future? Are we alone? And what can religion bring, alongside biology and anthropology, to these important and exciting questions? The Great Mystery focuses on this fascinating field of study. Alister McGrath, bestselling author and Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University, explores the question of human nature from both scientific and religious perspectives, and weaves together the results to open up and explore some of the deepest and most important questions about who we are, why we matter, and what our future might be. A follow-up to his critically acclaimed Inventing the Universe, in The Great Mystery Alister McGrath once again brings together science with religion to yield an enriched vision of reality, along with rigorous and thoroughly up-to-date scholarship and intellectual accessibility.

Author : T. L. Bequette
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 150923571X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Lookin': A Joe Turner Mystery written by T. L. Bequette and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the gang-ravaged streets of inner-city Oakland to the rolling hills of Berkeley, California, attorney Joe Turner defends the most hardened criminals. Confronted with an unlikely murderer in a modern-day whodunnit, Turner's latest case seems impossible to unravel. At its heart is a decade-old murder and a tangled web of family, loyalty, and devotion that has the trial hanging in the balance. Viewed through the prism of the unique bond of twins, Good Lookin' asks how far each of us will go to protect the ones we love.

Author : Ashley Weaver
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250160340
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder at the Brightwell written by Ashley Weaver and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisite seaside resort, an eccentric group of British aristrocrats on holiday, and rich 1930's detail lay the setting for this stupendous debut mystery of manners by a young librarian

Author : Ellis Peters
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497671329
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pilgrim of Hate written by Ellis Peters and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monk must find a killer among a flood of religious pilgrims in this medieval mystery by the Edgar Award–winning author: “A series like no other” (TheSan Diego Union-Tribune). In the year of our Lord 1141, civil war over England’s throne leaves a legacy of violence—and the murder of a knight dear to Brother Cadfael. And with gentle bud-strewn May, a flood of pilgrims comes to the celebration of Saint Winifred at the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, carrying with it many strange souls—and perhaps the knight’s killer. Brother Cadfael’s shrewd eyes see all: the prosperous merchant who rings false, an angelic lame boy, his beautiful dowerless sister, and two wealthy penitents. In the name of justice Cadfael decides to uncover the strange and twisted tale that accompanies these travelers. Instead he unearths a quest for vengeance, witnesses a miracle, and finds himself on a razor’s edge between death and the absolution of love.