Excellent as always. Harkens back to a time when there was no forensics to solve mysteries, and this mystery revolves around psychology
Michael G. (doctorslime) -
Another Excellent Mystery by Peter Ellis & Brother Cadfael.
As with all others in this series, the tale is fascinating.
Love reading Brother Cadfael's adventures and studying medieval art and architecture.
Kerrigan M. (kerriganm) reviewed The Devil's Novice (Brother Cadfael, Bk 8) on + 20 more book reviews
Ellis Peters writes wonderful, complex and sympathetic characters. The rich characters in this book drive the story and the mystery. Cadfael applies his sympathetic understanding of people to get at the truth and ease the mind of a new novice who seems to be undergoing mental torture.
Thomas F. (hardtack) -
What did the young man experience that forced him to abandon the life he aspired to and instead choose to become a monk?
What greater implications did his experience have to do with the current civil war in England?
Is he guilty of murder or is he taking the blame for someone else?
A tangled web that only Brother Cadfael can resolve with the help of Brother Mark, Hugh Beringar and a most unusual young lady.
Another wonderful Brother Cadfael mystery tragically resolves itself on what was suppose to be a happy day for two families - a wedding.
This book is another reason why I really dislike Ellis Peters. I dislike her because she only wrote 20 Brother Cadfael adventures, instead of a hundred or more.
What greater implications did his experience have to do with the current civil war in England?
Is he guilty of murder or is he taking the blame for someone else?
A tangled web that only Brother Cadfael can resolve with the help of Brother Mark, Hugh Beringar and a most unusual young lady.
Another wonderful Brother Cadfael mystery tragically resolves itself on what was suppose to be a happy day for two families - a wedding.
This book is another reason why I really dislike Ellis Peters. I dislike her because she only wrote 20 Brother Cadfael adventures, instead of a hundred or more.
From the back cover: The younger son of a prominent family, Meriet Aspley arrives at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, determined to become a monk. Dark, solitary, and just nineteen, he seems sincere in his quest for the ecclesiastical life--until his screaming nightmares shatter the peace of the monastery.
Dubbed the devil's novice and shunned by the other brothers, young Aspley attracts the notice and concern of kind Brother Cadfael. Then the dead body of a young priest last seen at the Aspley estate appears, and suddenly Meriet Aspley may be implicated in a murder.
So Cadfael, that excellent sleuth, sets out to untangle a knot of truly twisted threads that lead to a gala wedding held in the Abbey's own halls--where the conclusion to this haunting mystery is finally and fatefully revealed.
Dubbed the devil's novice and shunned by the other brothers, young Aspley attracts the notice and concern of kind Brother Cadfael. Then the dead body of a young priest last seen at the Aspley estate appears, and suddenly Meriet Aspley may be implicated in a murder.
So Cadfael, that excellent sleuth, sets out to untangle a knot of truly twisted threads that lead to a gala wedding held in the Abbey's own halls--where the conclusion to this haunting mystery is finally and fatefully revealed.
Enjoyed reading this book. Especially when I make one assumption and that gets turned on its head by the writer. Good job!
Anne Todd O. (forestguardian) reviewed The Devil's Novice (Brother Cadfael, Bk 8) on + 88 more book reviews
#8 of this wonderful Brother Cadfael 12th century Welsh Borderlands series of not necessarily monastic mysteries.
