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An Excellent Mystery (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #11)

Ellis Peters

Start date: June 15, 2022

Finish date: July 8, 2022

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Apr 04, 2008 Susan in NC rated it really liked it

Shelves: audiobook, currently-re-reading, kindle, reread, want-to-reread

Lovely outing with Cadfael, this was a reread for me, to refresh the plot in my mind for the upcoming read with the Reading the Detectives group. I listened to the audiobook for most of it, I love the narration by Patrick Tull.

It’s a hot, dry summer in Shrewsbury, and the civil war between Stephen and Maud rages on. A siege of Winchester brings two monks fleeing the destruction of their abbey. Humilis, the elder monk, was a crusader hero before taking the cowl; his war service left him badly inj ...more

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Aug 01, 2023 Amy rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-as-an-audiobook, brit-trip, 2023, 2023-crime-spree

This read more literary than as a mystery novel, but I still loved it because I love Cadfael. It did take me a while to get into it though.

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Apr 20, 2021 Michelle rated it liked it

Part of the Cadfael Chronicles. I’ve never read this series before — mysteries solved by a monk who was previously a Crusader in 12th century England. I liked but didn’t love.

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