One Corpse Too Many: The Second Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Library Edition

from nbmars

This is the second book in the Brother Cadfael mystery series, featuring an older Benedictine Monk who retired to the Abbey at Shrewsbury after a wild and eventful youth, and now spends his time peacefully in the Abbey's herbarium. Or tries to: it seems there's always a murder to be solved in 12t...

from readafew

One Corpse Too Many is the 2nd mystery of Brother Cadfael. This one is a step above the other Cadfael that I have read. The mystery is intriguing and while Cadfael is attempting to solve a murder (which gets lost for a time) he also has a charge he needs to protect, and try to send to safety. The...

from herschelian

Set in the middle ages, Cadfael is a monk in the Benedictine order. Based close to Shrewsbury a murder in the grounds of his Abbey means Cadfael had to turn detective....a wonderful cosy read, you'll gobble up the whole series like an illicit box of sweeties!

from atimco

One Corpse Too Many is the second chronicle of Brother Cadfael, and, like the first, invokes a fairly authentic picture of life in the Middle Ages. Though the book wasn't gripping and some of the surprises were predictable (on purpose, perhaps), I found it quite enjoyable. In this story, the roya...

from nbmars

This is the second book in the Brother Cadfael mystery series, featuring an older Benedictine Monk who retired to the Abbey at Shrewsbury after a wild and eventful youth, and now spends his time peacefully in the Abbey's herbarium. Or tries to: it seems there's always a murder to be solved in 12t...