Dead Mans Ransom, Ellis Peters
Dead Mans Ransom, Ellis Peters
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Dead Man's Ransom

Author: Ellis Peters

Narrator: Patrick Tull

Unabridged: 8 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/04/2009


Synopsis

Brother Cadfael must intervene when a prisoner exchange is interrupted by love and murder

In February of 1141, men march home from war to Shrewsbury, but the captured Sheriff Gilbert Prestcote is not among them. Elis, a young Welsh prisoner, is delivered to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul to begin a tale that will test Brother Cadfael's sense of justice—and his heart.

By good fortune, it seems, the prisoner can be exchanged as Sheriff Prestcote's ransom. What no one expects is that good-natured Elis will be struck down by cupid's arrow. The sheriff's own daughter holds him in thrall, and she, too, is blind with passion. But regaining her father means losing
her lover. The sheriff, ailing and frail, is brought to the abbey's infirmary—where he is murdered. Suspicion falls on the prisoner, who has only his Welsh honor to gain Brother Cadfael's help.

And Cadfael gives it, not knowing the truth will be a trial for his own soul.

About Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters (1913-1995) was the pseudonym of Edith Pargeter. She was a renowned writer of detective novels and was awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger for a lifetime's achievement in the genre.


Reviews

The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael Book 9 - This book follows directly upon The Devil’s Novice. [URL not allowed] In this ninth episode Peters chooses to delve deeply into the context of conflicts within which the Shrewsbury (Shropshire) Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul finds its......more

Goodreads review by Marta

Dead Man’s Ransom, a.k.a How to Get Away with Murder, is not good. I have enjoyed brother Cadfael’s stories so far, but I am either getting tired of the formula, or the books are getting more tired - I suspect both. I usually enjoyed the mystery and the historical components before; this one is ligh......more