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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