Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, books 16-20+ - Ellis Peters

Category: Adults, Classic, Historical Fiction, Mystery
Language: English
Keywords: 12th-century Herbalist England Sleuth!

Written by Ellis Peters
Read by Stephen Thorne
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Mixed
Unabridged

Chronicles of Brother Cadfael –Part 3, books 16-20+

All recorded book 16 thru 20 in this series are old and finding the best copies out there of the requested books was a challenge. Length of all books is about 7 hours.

16 The Heretic’s Apprentice (read by Stephen Thorne)

Brother Cadfael, 12th-century herbalist, sleuth and sometime cupid, outdoes himself in this, his 16th chronicle, in which Peters imbues the familiar territory of murder, young love and odious villainry with fresh vigor and new subtleties. Elave, young clerk to William of Lythwood, returns from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with his elderly master’s body. His missions are to bury William in his home abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, and to deliver a dowry to William’s adopted daughter Fortunata. But Elave, suspected of harboring views inimical to church doctrine, is held for ecclesiastical trial. And when Aldwin, the Lythwood family clerk hired in Elave’s absence, is stabbed to death, Elave is incarcerated not only for heresy, but for murder. Fortunata’s dowry, an intricately carved box with mysterious contents, holds the key to the mysteries that spring up around Elave and the Lythwood family. Shrewd and patient, Brother Cadfael is at his best here.

17 The Potter’s Field (read by Stephen Thorne)

When a newly plowed field recently given to the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul yields the body of a young woman, Brother Cadfael is quickly thrown into a delicate situation. The field was once owned by a local potter named Ruald, who had abandoned his beautiful wife, Generys, to take monastic vows.

Generys was said to have gone away with a lover, but now it seems as if she had been murdered. With the arrival at the abbey of young Sulien Blount, a novice fleeing homeward from the civil war raging in East Anglia, the mysteries surrounding the corpse start to multiply.

18 The Summer Of The Danes (read by Stephen Thorne)

Cadfael accompanies the Bishop of Lichfield’s representative as interpreter on a journey to the newly revived Welsh diocese of St Asaph. The journey is more eventful than expected. The Danish fleet is sighted approaching the Menai Strait, a girl disappears and a corpse is discovered.

19 The Holy Thief (read by Stephen Thorne)

At the height of the hot summer of 1144, a lucky hit by one of King Stephen’s archers rids the Fen country of Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, who has amassed his castles and gold by robbing rich and poor alike. Thus, the Benedictine abbey at Ramsey, long used as a den for Geoffrey’s raggle-taggle marauders, is returned in a thoroughly ruined state to the good brothers of that order. The news comes to Brother Cadfael or the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul in Shrewsbury in the person of the dour, raw-boned Brother Herluin who is soliciting funds and aid to restore Ramsey Abbey to its former splendor. Of much more interest to Cadfael is Herluin’s companion, Brother Tutilo, a slightly built lad with a guileless face surrounded by a profusion of brown curls. But Brother Cadfael, long a shrewd judge of character notes on that brow an intelligence that bespeaks more of mischief than innocence, and he muses that this Brother Tutilo bears watching. The arrival of a French troubadour, his servant, and a girl with the voice of an angel gives Cadfael a feeling in his wise bones that something is about to happen. It does.

29 Brother Cadfael’s Penance (read by Stephen Thorne)

By rumor and official dispatch, news had come to Shrewsbury of a terrible betrayal. Philip FitzRobert, one of the Empress Maud’s greatest champions, had turned coat, imprisoning thirty knights and squires who held true to the empress. The lucky ones had kin who could afford the dear price for their freedom; the others had to rot in captivity. Among the missing and unclaimed was Olivier de Bretagne, an exceptional knight whose mother had been a woman of the East - and whose sire, unknown to Olivier himself, was Brother Cadfael. It had happened during the Crusades, years before Cadfael had become a monk. Indeed, Cadfael did not know he had a son until by chance he met Olivier as a young man. But the bond is strong, and it is the one claim that can make Cadfael break his vows and drive him from his cloister, risking the religious way of life he so loves.

0.5 A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (read by Stephen Thorne)

In 1988, between books 15 and 16, Ellis Peters wrote this novella…
Finally, Brother Cadfael’s many fans can discover the chain of events that led him into the Benedictine Order! These three tales show Cadfael at the height of his sleuthing form. “Three classic stories featuring Brother Cadfael . . . whose powers of deduction are practically miraculous.”

Note—The complete series uploaded are a complete mess and are mostly abridged versions and need replacing. Parts 1 and 2 are coming, I promise.