Ellis Peters: The Leper of Saint Giles (USA 2017)

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In this mystery in the award-winning series featuring a twelfth-century Benedictine monk, Brother Cadfael must travel to the heart of a leper colony to root out the secret behind a savage murder.

Setting out for the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael has more pressing matters on his mind than the grand wedding coming to his abbey. But as fate would have it, Cadfael arrives at Saint Giles just as the nuptial party passes the colony's gates.

When he sees the fragile bride looking like a prisoner between her two stern guardians and the bridegroom -- an arrogant, fleshy aristocrat old enough to be her grandfather -- he quickly discerns this union may be more damned than blessed. Indeed, a savage murder will interrupt the May-December marriage and leave Cadfael with a dark, terrible mystery to solve. Now, with the key to the killing hidden among the lepers of Saint Giles, the monk must ferret out a sickness not of the body, but of a twisted soul.

Ellis Peters: The Leper of Saint Giles. The Fifth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. Mysteriouspress.com / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504048453 (November, 2017), 274 p., $19.99.

Ellis Peters: The Leper of Saint Giles (USA 2014)

From the Publisher:
In this mystery in the award-winning series featuring a twelfth-century Benedictine monk, Brother Cadfael must travel to the heart of a leper colony to root out the secret behind a savage murder.

Setting out for the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael has more pressing matters on his mind than the grand wedding coming to his abbey. But as fate would have it, Cadfael arrives at Saint Giles just as the nuptial party passes the colony's gates.

When he sees the fragile bride looking like a prisoner between her two stern guardians and the bridegroom -- an arrogant, fleshy aristocrat old enough to be her grandfather -- he quickly discerns this union may be more damned than blessed. Indeed, a savage murder will interrupt the May-December marriage and leave Cadfael with a dark, terrible mystery to solve. Now, with the key to the killing hidden among the lepers of Saint Giles, the monk must ferret out a sickness not of the body, but of a twisted soul.

Ellis Peters: The Leper of Saint Giles. The Fifth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. Mysteriouspress.com / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781497671188 (August, 2014), eBook, 7 MB (ca. 226 p.), $9.99.

Ellis Peters: The Leper of Saint Giles (USA 1995)

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Setting out for the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrews- bury, Brother Cadfoel has more pressing matters on his mind than the grand wedding coming to his abbey. Yet as fate would have it, Cadfael arrives at Saint Giles just as the nup- tial party passes the colony's gates.

He sees the fragile bride looking like a prisoner between her two stern guardians and the bridegroom, an arrogant, fleshy aristocrat old enough to be her grandfather. And he quickly discerns this union may be more damned than blessed. Indeed, a savage murder will interrupt the May-December marriage and leave Brother Codfael with a dark, terrible mys- tery to solve. For the key to the killing-and a secret -- are hid among the lepers of Saint Giles. Now Brother Cadfael's skills must ferret out a sickness, not of the body, but of a twisted soul-in the fifth Brother Cadfael Chronicle, a work that dis- plays Ellis Peters' special genius at her best.

"Successful and gripping... Once again Ellis Peters has combined a proper, carefully plotted detective story with a carefully detailed, convincing evocation of medieval life." -- Times Literary Supplement (London)
"There's grey matter under that tonsure and oodles of scholarly medieval info to be gleaned." -- Observer
"Cunningly contrived with a great sense of period detail." -- Yorkshire Post

Ellis Peters: The Leper of Saint Giles. The Fifth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul at Shrewsbury. The Mysterious Press / Warner Books, ISBN: 0446404373 (January, 1995), 201 p., $5.50.

Ellis Peters: The Leper of Saint Giles (UK 1994)

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CADFAEL '... A CULT FIGURE OF CRIME FICTION' -- Financial Times
A marriage has been arranged between an ageing nobleman and a very young woman, ill-matched as January and May must be, coerced by greedy guardians. Both parties arrive in Shrewsbury, where the ceremony is to take place, with escorts suitable to their rank. Then there is a savage killing, something Brother Cadfael is called upon to investigate with his customary clear sightedness and wisdom. Outside Shrewsbury's walls stands the leper house of Saint Giles, a sanctuary for the sick, but also a possible refuge for the hunted man...

ELLIS PETERS, RECIPIENT OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION/ CARTIER DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD
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Ellis Peters: The Leper of Saint Giles. The Cadfael Chronicles V. Warner Futura, ISBN: 0751511056 (May, 1994), 224 p., £4.99.

Ellis Peters: The Leper of Saint Giles (USA 1985)

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"ENCHANTING... certainly one of the best of Cadfael's investigations Medieval England comes marvelously alive." -- The Washington Post
Lovely, young, and well-dowried, Iveta de Massard is betrothed to the cruel and greedy Huon de Domville, a man well on in years. Gladly would she give her heart to young Joscelin, a noble squire who would adore her were she wealthy or not.

But before Joscelin can save his beloved from this odious marriage, Huon de Domville is found murdered And Joscelin is forced to hide in a leper sanctuary, so certain are his foes that he is the guilty one.

Brave and true, amateur detective Brother Cadfael is not so certain. With care and more than a little courage, he sets about solving this marvelous mystery.

THE LEPER of ST GILES
"Peters' historical mysteries are vivid standouts... An old-fashioned joust between good and evil." -- Chicago Sun-Times

Ellis Peters: The Leper of Saint Giles. Who strangled the wealthy bridegroom on the eve of his wedding? A Medieval Murder Mystery. Fawcett Crest / Ballantine, ISBN: 044920541X (April, 1985), 199 p., $2.95.

Ellis Peters: The Leper of Saint Giles (UK 1981)

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Brother Cadfael, in 1139 AD gardener to the Benedictine monastery at Shrewsbury and occasional detective, has in the four previous chronicles acquired the respect of critics and a large, affectionate readership.

Here it is the imminence of a wedding that leads to murder. A 'marriage has been arranged' in a somewhat ruthless fashion between an ageing nobleman and a very young woman, coerced by greedy guardians. It is to take place in Shrewsbury, and both parties arrive with escorts suitable to their rank. As Cadfael remarks: 'A wedding is the crux of two lives, and therefore no mean matter.'

But something really mean is afoot, and soon he finds himself investigating a savage killing. There are certain likely suspects, one obvious one. As ever Cadfael pursues the truth - and very strange it turns out in the end to be.

Saint Giles, patron saint of lepers, gives his name to the lazar-house set safely apart from the walls of Shrewsbury. Within this sanctuary a hunted man, as well as the sick and indigent, may find refuge, with the connivance of the inmates, and to the confusion of the pursuers. And silently and patiently presiding over the troubled course of marriage, star-crossed love, conflict and death, sits the enigmatic figure of the old, itinerant leper who goes by the name of Lazarus.

In another story of great distinction Ellis Peters again brings to bright life the enchanting figure of Brother Cadfael, and sets him on a course of detection and revelation.

Ellis Peters: The Leper of Saint Giles. The Fifth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. Macmillan, ISBN: 0333319850 (April, 1985), 199 p., £5.50.