Ellis
Peters

Creator of one the most enduring historical
detectives, Brother Cadfael, Peters is a prolific writer who has produced some
well-received straight historical romances under her own name (Edith Pargiter) and
contemporary crime fiction that is frankly not up to the quality of top notch contemporary
detectives. Cadfael, though, is a one-off. He has a neatly rounded character without the
gimmicky quirks that seem essential for a contemporary detective. Cadfael's calm
assessment of life and his fellow men makes the cloistered life seem attractive and a
perfectly reasonable move for an old sailor and man-of-the-world. No matter how nasty some
of his fellow monks, nor how brutish the wonderfully portrayed 12th Century life in the
uneasy civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud, there's something magical
about Cadfael's world in the (now) elegant town of Shrewsbury, in England but on the
borders with Wales, an area so well conjured up that the accompanying 'Cadfael Country'
type books are no surprise.
Derek Jacobi's portrayal of Cadfael in the TV
series has put an inevitable mark on the character - and Jacobi does it very well indeed -
but don't feel you've done it all if you've only come across Cadfael on TV. Peters' gentle
writing contrasting with the often brutal times makes for excellent reading.

A Morbid
Taste for Bones
Published 19 May, 1994 The first Brother Cadfael book, originally
published in 1977. The bones in question are those of St Winifrid, who is to be
transported from a remote Welsh village to the abbey at Shrewsbury - but in those days,
saintly relics were not easy things to deal with, especially with a murder along the way.
A Morbid
Taste for Bones
Published 1991
A Nice
Derangement of Epitaphs
Published April 1988 One of Peters' contemporary stories featuring
Detective Inspector George Felse. Not in the same calibre as Cadfael, but a must for the
Peters' enthusiast.
A Rare
Benedictine
Published 4 October, 1990
Adventures
of Brother Cadfael Gift Set
Published 1996
An
Excellent Mystery
Published May 1994
Black Is
the Colour of My True Love's Heart
Published 13 October, 1988
Brother Cadfael's Herb Garden :
An Illustrated Companion to Medieval Plants and Their Uses
Published 1997
Brother
Cadfael's Penance : The Twentieth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, of the Benedictine Abbey
of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury
Published 1996
Brother
Cadfael's Penance : The Twentieth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
Published 1995
Brother
Cadfael's Penance
Published 5 October, 1995
Brother
Cadfael's Penance
Published September 1996
Cadfael Country
Published 31 May, 1990
Cadfael
Omnibus 7
Published September 1997
Cordially
Yours, Brother Cadfael
Published 1998
Cordially Yours, Brother Cadfael
Published 1998
Dead Man's
Ransom
Published May 1994
Dead Man's
Ransom
Published October 1995
Death and
the Joyful Woman
Published 1995
Death to
the Landlords
Published 3 November, 1988
Devil's
Novice
Published 23 March, 1995
Edith
Pargeter: Ellis Peters
Published 31 December, 1994
Ellis
Peters' Shropshire
Published 22 April, 1999
Fallen
into the Pit (Inspector Felse Series , No 1)
Published 1996
Flight of
a Witch
Published 8 November, 1990
Funeral of
Figaro
Published 1 December, 1989
Heretic's
Apprentice
Published 1995
House of
Green Turf
Published 25 August, 1992
Leper of
Saint Giles
Published 1996
Monk's
Hood/Cassettes
Published 1995
Monk's
Hood
Published 1992
Monk's
Hood
Published October 1991
Monk's-hood
Published 28 November, 1994
Mourning
Raga
Published 19 May, 1988
One Corpse
Too Many
Published 19 May, 1994
One Corpse
Too Many
Published 1994
Potter's
Field
Published 1996
Saint
Peter's Fair
Published September 1994
Sanctuary
Sparrow
Published September 1996
St Peter's
Fair
Published 23 March, 1995
St.
Peter's Fair
Published 1995
St.
Peter's Fair
Published 1995
The Assize
of the Dying
Published 5 September, 1991
The
Brother Cadfael Mystery Collection
Published November 1997
The
Brothers of Gwynedd : Comprising, Sunrise in the West, the Dragon at Noonday, the Hounds
of Sunset, Afterglow and Nightfall
Published 1990
The Cadfael Companion
Published 25 September, 1995
The
Confession of Brother Haluin
Published 19 May, 1994
The
Confession of Brother Haluin
Published 18 November, 1996
The
Confessions of Brother Haluin
Published 1994
The
Detective Omnibus
Published 8 October, 1992
The
Devil's Novice
Published 1997
The
Devil's Novice
Published March 1996
The
Dominic Felse Omnibus
Published 7 November, 1991
The Fifth
Cadfael Omnibus
Published 22 September, 1994
The First
Cadfael Omnibus
Published 6 December, 1990
The Fourth
Cadfael Omnibus
Published 23 September, 1993
The George
Felse Omnibus
Published 1 December, 1994
The
Heretic's Apprentice: the Sixteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
Published 19 May, 1994
The
Heretic's Apprentice
Published June 1994
The Hermit
of Eyton Forest
Published 1995
The Hermit
of Eyton Forest
Published 4 November, 1996
The Holy
Thief
Published 15 December, 1998
The Holy
Thief
Published 1993
The Horn
of Roland
Published 6 June, 1991
The
Knocker on Death's Door
Published 1995
The Leper
of Saint Giles: the Fifth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
Published May 1994
The Leper
of Saint Giles
Published 1995
The Leper
of St Giles
Published September 1996
The
Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits
Published October 1993
The Monk's
Hood: the Third Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
Published 19 May, 1994
The
Pilgrim of Hate
Published 31 July, 1998
The
Pilgrims of Hate
Published August 1998
The Piper
on the Mountain : An Inspector George Felse Mystery
Published 1996
The
Potter's Field
Published 15 December, 1998
The
Potter's Field
Published 23 May, 1994
The Raven
in the Foregate
Published 1 February, 1996
The Rose
Rent; A Brother Cadfael Mystery
Published 1998
The Rose
Rent
Published 25 August, 1994
The Rose
Rent
Published 18 March, 1996
The
Sanctuary Sparrow [UNABRIDGED]
Published 1997
The
Sanctuary Sparrow: the Seventh Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
Published May 1994
The
Sanctuary Sparrow
Published 1995
The Second
Cadfael Omnibus
Published 10 October, 1991
The Sixth
Cadfael Omnibus
Published 7 December, 1995
The Summer
of the Danes
Published May 1994
The Summer
of the Danes
Published April 1994
The Third
Cadfael Omnibus
Published 24 September, 1992
The Virgin
in the Ice
Published 23 March, 1995
The Virgin
in the Ice
Published September 1996
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