Dead Man's Ransom: Library Edition

from antiquary

The sheriff of Shropshire, Gilbert Prestcote, is wounded fighting for King Stephen, and then murdered before he can recover. Cadfael's friend Hugh Berengar, Prestcote's deputy, has to find the killer, with Cadfael's aid. This is an unusual story in that the victim had been a regular character in ...

from jen.e.moore

Lots of Welshness in this one, which I enjoyed; really implausible love quadrangle, which I didn't. And like other reviewers, I really want Sister Magdalene to have her own series.

from Auntie-Nanuuq

In a drunken brawl a man accidentally killed.....The Sheriff strict & unyielding hung by the neck until dead the two survivors. One of those hung, his 1/2 brother seeks revenge upon the Sheriff, but is healing from a broken leg in the Abbey's Infirmary.Afar at the nunnery, a Welsh raiding party i...

from turtlesleap

Brother Cadfael crosses the border into Wales as an emissary for the English and to search for a vital clue to the murder of the Sheriff as he lay ill and sleeping in the monastery. Peters writes her usual compelling tale with one of the most engaging characters from any mystery series.

from Michael.Rimmer

This was the last of the Brother Cadfael books that I read. They were all really good, but I think I read too many, too quickly and spoiled my appetite for any more. Shame really.