Morbid Taste for Bones - Mille feuilles

No cover — Morbid Taste for Bones (1998, Paragon House Publishers)

296 pages

English language

Published Nov. 26, 1998 by Paragon House Publishers.

ISBN:: 978-0-7451-8773-0

(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.

battlepoet

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July 4, 2022

Subjects

Cadfael, brother (fictitious character), fiction
Clergy, fiction
England, fiction
Fiction, historical, general
Fiction, mystery & detective, general