![]() ![]() ![]() Then the dead body is found in the pile, and Cadfael gets his new assistant and stuff starts happening. This was largely due to the history dump Peters gives the reader in the beginning the boring-to-me kind of history about battles and wars and political shenanigans. ![]() Like, omg, this book is never, ever going to end. ![]() I had doubts starting this one, because it starts off slow. the tiny bit of evidence that Cadfael believes can expose a murderer's black heart. He vows to find the truth behind disparate clues: a girl in boy's clothing, a missing treasure, and a single broken flower . . . But one death among so many seems unimportant to all but the good Benedictine. This ingenious way to dispose of a corpse tells Brother Cadfael that the killer is both clever and ruthless. With a heavy heart, Brother Cadfael agrees to bury the dead, only to make a grisly discovery: one extra victim that has been strangled, not hanged. Not far from the safety of the abbey walls, Shrewsbury Castle falls, leaving its ninety-four defenders loyal to the empress to hang as traitors. In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden into a battlefield of passions, deceptions, and death. Brother Cadfael discovers a murder amid the wreckage of Shrewsbury Castle in this mystery series featuring "a colorful and authentic medieval background" ( Publishers Weekly). ![]()
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