Chronicles of Brother Cadfael: The Rose Rent : The Thirteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael (Series #13) (CD-Audio)

from jercox

A little better than average, and I like Cadfael in general. The problems of agency for a woman with property in feudal england, plus love and the usual bad / trapped actors make for a fun story.

from Meredy

Six-word review: Slight departure refreshes Cadfael narrative formula. Extended review: There's a young woman, but she isn't a blue-eyed seventeen-year-old virgin with golden tresses. There's a man, but he isn't a dashing lad of twenty who's wrongfully accused of something and being hidden by Cad...

from DWWilkin

This book has a different pacing then the last several in the series. There is still a build-up to the first murder and the mystery, but in this instance we are focused on the mystery. There is detail about the part of medieval life that surrounds and embraces those involved in the mystery and th...

from readafew

The Rose Rent is the 13th book in the Brother Cadfael Mystery series. Cadfael is 12th Century English monk and apothecary with an open mind and an observant eye. It was a pretty good book and it did a good job of keeping one guessing who was the ultimate villain. The Rose rent is required from th...

from phoenixcomet

Widow Perle leaves her estate to the Shrewsbury Monastery on the condition that she is delivered one white rose to her on St. Winifred's Day. When Brother Eluric is murdered at the site of the rose bush and the rose bush has been brutally attacked, Brother Cadfael realizes this is a complicated c...