The Raven in the Foregate (Brother Cadfael Series #12)

by Ellis Peters

Overview

It is Christmas, A.D. 1141, Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross, also known as the Foregate. The new priest is a man of presence, learning, and discipline, but he lacks humility and the common touch. When he is found drowned in the millpond, suspicion is cast upon a young man who arrived with the priest's train and was sent to work in Brother Cadfael's garden. Indeed, he is soon discovered to be an impostor. To Brother Cadfael, now falls the familiar task of sorting out the complicated strands of innocence and guilt.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780446405348
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	11/01/1997
Series:	Brother Cadfael Series , #12
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.55(d)
Age Range:	13 Years

About the Author

Although she wrote under a number of pseudonyms, Edith Mary Pargeter (1913-1995) is perhaps best known as the mystery author Ellis Peters. Pargeter wrote the Brother Cadfael series featuring a medieval Benedictine monk. She won many writing awards during her lifetime and a number of her Brother Cadfael books were made into television movies.

Editorial Reviews

Absorbing...A source of far more pleasure than The Name of the Rose...Brohter Cadfael's Aristotelian eye is, as usual, tempered by an instinctive knowledge of the human soul.

Detroit News

Some of the most elegant, unstilted prose being written in mystery novels. [Peters'] chronicles of twelfth-century abbey life in England...have made her a best-selling phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic.

Chicago Sun-Times

Enchanting...medieval England comes marvelously alive.

Washington Post