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Mass Market Paperback The Potters Field: The Seventeenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Paul at Shrewsbury Book

ISBN: 0446400580

ISBN13: 9780446400589

The Potter's Field

(Book #17 in the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael Series)

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In October of 1142, a local landlord gives the Potter's Field to the local clergy. The monks begin to plow it, and the blades turn up the long tresses of a young woman, dead over a year. Then the arrival of a novice who fled from an abbey ravaged by civil war in East Anglia complicates life even further for Brother Cadfael.

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Rated 4 stars
Solid work in the canon

I have been ploughing through these this last few weeks. Ploughing being an intentioned pun. I have told sometimes of the sequencing of a body, of a suspect, of a result if it was too obvious. Well here we have the body in the very first chapter. It works wondorously well. Throughout the series we have the vocabulary that Cadfael uses lend further to the depth that these stories give the times. Perhaps not what really took...

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Rated 4 stars
Cadfael With A Twist

When a newly tilled field recently given to the abbey yields the hastily buried body of a young woman, Brother Cadfael is soon involved in the matter. The field was once owned by Ruald, the local potter, who abandoned his beautiful young wife wife in favor of joining the abbey as a novice the previous year. The wife was rumored to have gone off with a new lover, but it now seems as though that may not have been the case. ...

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Rated 4 stars
Buried memories

In this 17th chronicle of the detective monk, Brother Cadfael is asked to help to identify the body of a woman who was discovered when the monks of the Abbey of St.Peter and St.Paul began to till a field which had just been donated to them. The field was previously occupied by Ruald, a local potter who abandoned his wife of many years to become a monk, claiming that he had a divine calling from God, and the fact that he was...

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Rated 5 stars
Extremely well written - a gentle & interesting story

I found this (unabridged audio) book at the library - knew nothing about the series or the author. What a pleasant surprise! Very well written, a meticulously crafted story that gently unfolds in a way that engages you from the start without any bumps or discrepancies, using a language and style that seem to come from the very times that it describes. Written with an obvious affection for the characters portrayed. And...

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Peters in full bloom.

A particularly good effort by Peters. In addition to her intriguing characters and historical backdrop, she gives us a good murder mystery as well.

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