The Rose Rent
Book 13 of Brother Cadfael
1135-1154 Brother (Fictitious character) Brother (Fictitious character)/ Fiction Cadfael Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Traditional British Great Britain Herbalists Herbalists/ Fiction History Large Type Books Monks Monks/ Fiction Shrewsbury (England) Stephen
Publisher: Chivers Press
Published: Aug 15, 2000
Description:
SUMMARY: Judith Perle, a young widow who had greatly loved her husband, has conveyed one of her properties to the Abbey of Shrewsbury in return for the annual rent of one white rose from the bush growing on the property's north wall. A few years later, in 1142, the delivery of the rose became an issue, since there were men in Shrewsbury who desired Judith for her beauty or her substantial dowry. The first crisis appears to have been averted by the handling of the monks of the Benedictine Abbey, among them Brother Cadfael. But a sudden brutal murder cries out for investigation and punishment...