A Morbid Taste for Bones

A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977) Ellis Peters (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael)

Set in England in 1137.

The herbarium in particular was his kingdom, for he had built it up gradually through the fifteen years of labour, and added to it many exotic plants of his own careful raising, collected in a roving youth that had taken him as far afield as Venice, and Cyprus and the Holy Land. For Brother Cadfael had come late to the monastic life, like a battered ship settling at last for a quiet harbour. He was well aware that in the first years of his vows the novices and lay servants had been wont to point him out to one another with awed whisperings.

It takes only one man to be favoured with a vision, but it has to be the right man.

Never forget God is far more deeply offended even than you or I by this great wrong!

Characters: Abbot Heribert, Annest, Bened, Bishop David of Bangor, Brother Cadfael, Brother Columbanus, Brother Jerome, Brother John, Brother Rhys, Cadwallon, Cai, Engelard, Father Huw, Griffith ap Rhys, Owain Gwynedd, Peredur, Prior Robert Pennant, Rhisiart, Richard, Sioned

Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road

Rating: 8.5/10

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