The Rose Rent: The Thirteenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
by Ellis Peters
published
November 1st 1997
by Mysterious Press
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binding
Mass Market Paperback, 240 pages
isbn
0446405337
(isbn13: 9780446405331)
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In honor of her husband, young, beautiful, and wealthy widow Judith Perle donates a house to the Abbey at Shrewsbury--for the annual rent of one white...more
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Medieval life was hard, doubly so for a widow. And a rich widow had her own threats, some of them murderous.
Mystery did a decent job of their video of this story.
Cadfael series: excellent historical fiction. Ellis Peters draws the reader into the twelfth century with modern story telling but holds us there with a richness of detail which evokes a time and place which might as well be mythic. Though the foreground of each chronicle is a murder mystery, behind it a nation and a culture ar...more
Mystery did a decent job of their video of this story.
Cadfael series: excellent historical fiction. Ellis Peters draws the reader into the twelfth century with modern story telling but holds us there with a richness of detail which evokes a time and place which might as well be mythic. Though the foreground of each chronicle is a murder mystery, behind it a nation and a culture ar...more
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Love the Cadfael series. It's wonderful to be transported to 12th century Shrewsbury (such a unique setting for a mystery) and to follow Cadfael, an ex-crusader turned monk, while he solves the murder of a fellow Brother.
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Read in October, 2008
Fairly typical Cadfael. Always enjoyable but not spectacular.
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A good mystery that involves many suspects with many motives but even better, each suspect is involved to some degree...a good twist and a surprising lack of the young love sub-plot, although two are brought together by the end.
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I really like this series. Not the most complex of mysteries that you'll ever read, but she's careful with her history and if I'm remembering correctly she also researched the weather at the actual abbey and so that's acurate as well--as far as I know. Fun and Easy
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Read in August, 2007
typical Ellis Peters excellence! Even though I knew who the villain must be by the fourth chapter, the climax still made me catch my breath at the end.
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