Book Review
Mar. 27th, 2018 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariA Rare Benedictine
by Ellis Peters
This is a set of three short stories that serve as a sort of prequel to the main Cadfael historical mystery series. The first, "A Light on the Road to Woodstock", tells how Cadfael came to join the monastery at Shrewsbury. The other two, "The Price of Light" and "Eye Witness", tell of mysteries that occur before the main series begins. In each of the stories, the crimes to be solved are not murders, so the stakes are a little lower than in the other books. Nonetheless, Cadfael is the the same sympathetic and clever observer of human nature and behavior My favorite of the three was "The Price of Light" for the way Peters economically delineates a complex melodramatic situation among some guests of the abbey and for how Cadfael provides a compassionate solution to a theft.
by Ellis Peters
This is a set of three short stories that serve as a sort of prequel to the main Cadfael historical mystery series. The first, "A Light on the Road to Woodstock", tells how Cadfael came to join the monastery at Shrewsbury. The other two, "The Price of Light" and "Eye Witness", tell of mysteries that occur before the main series begins. In each of the stories, the crimes to be solved are not murders, so the stakes are a little lower than in the other books. Nonetheless, Cadfael is the the same sympathetic and clever observer of human nature and behavior My favorite of the three was "The Price of Light" for the way Peters economically delineates a complex melodramatic situation among some guests of the abbey and for how Cadfael provides a compassionate solution to a theft.
