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The Potter's Field

Ellis Peters author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Published:13th Aug '98

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The Potter's Field cover

In his seventeenth chronicle Brother Cadfael is asked to help identify a corpse found on Abbey land and discovers that it is the least baffling facet of a mysterious murder.

The year is 1143, and once again Brother Cadfael is forced to abandon the tranquility of his herb garden and use his knowledge of human nature to solve a murder- this time frighteningly close to home. When a newly ploughed field, recently given to the Abbey yields that body of a young woman, Cadfael is quickly thrown into a delicate situation. The field was once ownded by a local potter named Ruald, who deserted his beautiful wife to take monastic vows among the Benedictines. The woman was said to have gone away with a lover, but now it would appear otherwise. With the arrival of young Sulien Blount, a novice fleeing homeward from the civil war raging in East Anglia, the mysteries surrounding the corpse start to multiply.

A pleasing and unusual mixture of suspense and historical fiction. * EVENING STANDARD *

ISBN: 9780751527339

Dimensions: 176mm x 106mm x 24mm

Weight: 147g

240 pages