Ellis Peters
Description
"A beautiful and wealthy young widow donates the house she shared with her beloved husband to Shrewsbury Abbey, asking only for the annual rent of one white rose from its garden. Among her many admirers is the young monk charge with delivering the first rose. When the monk is found bludgeoned to death and the widow disappears, Cadfael investigates." --container.
Description
"When a young monk claims to see vision of St. Winifred, Cadfael and a party from Shrewsbury Abbey trek to Wales to excavate her holy relics and are met with mush hostility. When the main opponent to the monks' efforts is murdered, not even the holy men - who are forbidden to leave with the relics until Cadfael identifies the killer - are exempt from suspicion." --container.
Description
"Father Ailnoth, the new parish priest, earns the scorn of all his parishioners. After refusing to baptize the illegitimate baby of a local woman, the priest is found dead in the river. With plenty of suspects but a shortage of clues, Cadfael confounds even his good friend Beringar, the Under Sheriff, in revealing just how the priest lost his life." --container.
Series
Bodies from the library volume 5
Description
"The end of the First World War saw the rise of an insatiable public appetite for clever and thrilling mystery fiction and a new kind of hero – the modern crime writer. As the genre soared in popularity, so did the inventiveness of its best authors, ushering in a 'Golden Age' of detective fiction – two decades of exemplary mystery writing: the era of the whodunit, the impossible crime and the locked-room mystery, with stories that have thrilled...