A morbid taste for bones - Mille feuilles

No cover — A morbid taste for bones (1977, Macmillan)

192 pages

English language

Published Nov. 26, 1977 by Macmillan.

ISBN:: 978-0-333-22324-6

(2 reviews)

12th-century Shrewsbury monks go to Wales to recover a 7th-century saint’s relics, and encounter opposition from the relics’ current keepers. Then the opposition leader is murdered.

32 editions

Library Orb reviewed A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters

A Debut That's Hard to Beat

4 stars

The first outing for medieval mystery monk Brother Cadfael has everything: religious tensions, vying vendettas, and a murder that can only be solved in a truly bizarre fashion.

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July 4, 2022

Subjects

Cadfael, Brother (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
Herbalists -- Fiction
Monks -- Fiction
Great Britain -- History -- Stephen, 1135-1154 -- Fiction
Shrewsbury (England) -- Fiction