The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael: One Corpse Too Many (Paperback)

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 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...

from kevn57

The second book of the Cadfael series but the first to take place in Shrewsbury, the setting for the majority of the series, also this volume includes more about the political situation of the time detailing the struggle between King Stephen and Empress Maude.