Ellis Peters: The Pilgrim of Hate

Ellis Peters: The Pilgrim of Hate (USA 2021)

From the Publisher:
A monk must find a killer among a flood of religious pilgrims in this medieval mystery by the Edgar Award-winning author: "A series like no other" (The San Diego Union-Tribune).

In the year of our Lord 1141, civil war over England's throne leaves a legacy of violence -- and the murder of a knight dear to Brother Cadfael. And with gentle bud-strewn May, a flood of pilgrims comes to the celebration of Saint Winifred at the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, carrying with it many strange souls -- and perhaps the knight's killer.

Brother Cadfael's shrewd eyes see all: the prosperous merchant who rings false, an angelic lame boy, his beautiful dowerless sister, and two wealthy penitents. In the name of justice Cadfael decides to uncover the strange and twisted tale that accompanies these travelers. Instead he unearths a quest for vengeance, witnesses a miracle, and finds himself on a razor's edge between death and the absolution of love.

Ellis Peters: The Pilgrim of Hate. The Tenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. Mysteriouspress.com / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504067492 (July, 2021), 228 p., $23.99.

Ellis Peters: The Pilgrim of Hate (USA 2014)

Ellis Peters: The Pilgrim of Hate. The Tenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. Mysteriouspress.com / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781497671324 (August, 2014), eBook, 8 MB (ca. 228 p.), $12.99.

Ellis Peters: The Pilgrim of Hate (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
In the year of our Lord 1141, civil war over England's throne leaves a legacy of violence-and the murder of a knight dear to Brother Cadfael. And with gentle bud-strewn May, a flood of pilgrims comes to the celebration of Saint Winifred at the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, carrying with it many strange souls... and perhaps the knight's killer.

"A SERIES LIKE NO OTHER... THIS LATEST EXAMPLE, LIKE ITS PREDECESSORS, [IS] A DELIGHT." -- San Diego Union-Tribune
"SOME OF THE MOST ELEGANT, UNSTILTED PROSE BEING WRITTEN IN MYSTERY NOVELS... A BESTSELLING PHENOMENON ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC." -- Chicago Sun-Times

Ellis Peters: The Pilgrim of Hate. The Tenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury. Mysterious Press / Warner Books, ISBN: 0446405310 (September, 1997), 202 p., $5.99.

Ellis Peters: The Pilgrim of Hate (UK 1994)

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Pilgrims are gathering from far and wide to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the translation of Saint Winifred's bones to the Benedictine Abbey at Shrewsbury. In distant Winchester, a . knight, supporter of the Empress Maud, has been murdered - not apparently an event of importance to those seeking miraculous cures at the saint's shrine. But among the throng some strange customers indeed begin to puzzle Brother Cadfael and as the story unfolds it becomes evident that the murder is a much less remote affair than it first seemed.

ELLIS PETERS, RECIPIENT OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION/CARTIER DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD
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Ellis Peters: The Pilgrim of Hate. The Cadfael Chronicles X. Warner Futura, ISBN: 0751511102 (May, 1994), 271 p., £4.99.

Ellis Peters: The Pilgrim of Hate (USA 1985)

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In this, the tenth mystery in Ellis Peters's remarkable series of medieval suspense novels featuring the incomparable Benedictine monk/sleuth Brother Cadfael, the author skillfully weaves the strands of three separate but equally compelling stories into a single drama of unusual hue and complexity of design.

It is A.D. 1141, a year that brings a tide of pilgrims to the Benedictine Abbey at Shrewsbury. The occasion is a joyous one -- a celebration in honor of St. Winifred, whose sacred relics were transferred to the abbey from Wales four years earlier. Having had more than a little to do with that adventure, Brother Cadfael now casts a bemused but fond eye upon the cast of beggars, supplicants, crooks, cripples, and good plain folk who have congregated at the shrine of St. Winifred in the hope of miraculous cures.

Meanwhile, far away in embattled Winchester, a knight, supporter of the Empress Maud (who is campaigning against Stephen for the throne of England), is mysteriously murdered. But this seemingly disparate event, Cadfael begins to suspect, may be connected to the arrival at the shrine of a pair of pilgrims: a young man who has walked for many miles barefoot and in great pain, and his companion, another youth who appears to be his protector. That the two are bound to each other with an unusual and unsettling intensity is obvious, but are they also bound to the murder in Winchester?

As Cadfael ponders these mysteries, St. Winifred takes a hand in the game with a miraculous cure. And love blooms between two young pilgrims, one of whom may be the murderer.

With all the perspicacity and good humor we have come to admire and expect of Brother Cadfael, he goes about the business of unraveling the sticky skein of suspects and motives, hunches and clues, to solve the mystery of one tragedy and to prevent another.

About the Author
Ellis Peters is a pseudonym for Edith Pargeter, author of many books under her own name. Few, however, are more popular -- or more highly acclaimed-than these chronicles of Brother Cadfael. The recipient of the Crime Writers of America Silver Dagger Award, she is also well known as a translator of poetry and prose from the Czech. Miss Pargeter lives in Shropshire, England.

Ellis Peters: The Pilgrim of Hate. A Brother Cadfael Mystery. William Morrow, ISBN: 0688049648 (November, 1985), 190 p., $14.95.