Ellis Peters: The Raven in the Foregate (USA 2021)

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A despised priest is drowned in a pond in this medieval mystery filled with "lively period detail" (Kirkus Reviews).
In a mild December in the year of our Lord 1141, a new priest comes to the parishioners of the Foregate outside the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Father Ailnoth brings with him a housekeeper and her nephew -- and a disposition that invites murder.

Brother Cadfael quickly sees that father Ailnoth is a harsh man who, striding along in his black cassock, looks like a doomsaying raven. The housekeeper's nephew, Benet, is quite different -- a smiling lad, a hard worker in Cadfael's herb garden, but, as Brother Cadfael soon discovers, an impostor. And when Ailnoth is found drowned, suspicion falls on Benet, though many in the Foregate had cause to want this priest dead. Now Brother Cadfael is gathering clues along with his medicinals to treat a case of unholy passions, tragic politics, and perhaps divine intervention.

Ellis Peters: The Raven in the Foregate. The Twelfth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. Mysteriouspress.com / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781504067577 (August, 2021), 236 p., $24.99.

Ellis Peters: The Raven in the Foregate (USA 2014)

From the Publisher:
A despised priest is drowned in a pond in this medieval mystery filled with "lively period detail" (Kirkus Reviews).
In a mild December in the year of our Lord 1141, a new priest comes to the parishioners of the Foregate outside the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Father Ailnoth brings with him a housekeeper and her nephew -- and a disposition that invites murder.

Brother Cadfael quickly sees that father Ailnoth is a harsh man who, striding along in his black cassock, looks like a doomsaying raven. The housekeeper's nephew, Benet, is quite different -- a smiling lad, a hard worker in Cadfael's herb garden, but, as Brother Cadfael soon discovers, an impostor. And when Ailnoth is found drowned, suspicion falls on Benet, though many in the Foregate had cause to want this priest dead. Now Brother Cadfael is gathering clues along with his medicinals to treat a case of unholy passions, tragic politics, and perhaps divine intervention.

Ellis Peters: The Raven in the Foregate. The Twelfth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. Mysteriouspress.com / Open Road Integrated Media, ISBN: 9781497671386 (August, 2014), eBook, 8 MB (ca. 236 p.), $14.99.

Ellis Peters: The Raven in the Foregate (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
In a mild December in the year of our Lord 1141, a new priest comes to the parishioners of the Foregate outside the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Father Ailnoth brings with him a housekeeper and her nephew-and a disposition that invites murder...

Brother Cadfael quickly sees that Father Ailnoth is a harsh man who, striding along in his black cassock, looks like a doomsaying raven. The housekeeper's nephew, Benet, is quite different-a smiling lad, a hard worker in Cadfael's herb garden, but, as Brother Cadfael soon discovers, an impostor. And when Ailnoth is found drowned, suspicion falls on Benet, though many in the Foregate had cause to want this priest dead. Now Brother Cadfael is gathering clues along with his medicinals to treat a case of unholy passions, tragic politics, and perhaps divine intervention...

"A SPIRITED AND ENGROSSING MYSTERY... LUSH, EVOCATIVE DESCRIPTIONS BRING MEDIEVAL ENGLAND BRILLIANTLY TO LIFE." -- Publishers Weekly
"ABSORBING... A SOURCE OF FAR MORE PLEASURE THAN THE NAME OF THE ROSE... BROTHER CADFAEL'S ARISTOTELIAN EYE IS, AS USUAL, TEMPERED BY AN INSTINCTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HUMAN SOUL." -- Detroit News

Ellis Peters: The Raven in the Foregate. The Twelfth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, at Shrewsbury.. Mysterious Press / Warner Books, ISBN: 0446405345 (November, 1997), 228 p., $5.99.

Ellis Peters: The Raven in the Foregate (UK 1996)

From the Publisher:
Christmas, 1141 AD. Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross (known as the foregate), a man of presence, scholarship and discipline, but neither humility nor the common touch. When he is found drowned in the mill pond, suspicion is cast in many directions, not least towards a young man who came in the priest's train, sent to work in Brother Cadfael's garden. For he has little obvious priestly calling. Indeed, he soon attracts the friendship of a girl both beautiful and formidable.

To Brother Cadfael, once worldly, now dedicated, if gently cynical, is left the familiar task of sorting the complicated strands which define guilt and innocence.

Ellis Peters: The Raven in the Foregate. The Cadfael Chronicles XII. Warner Futura, ISBN: 0751517402 (November, 1997), 252 p., £5.99.

Ellis Peters: The Raven in the Foregate (USA 1988)

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"ENGROSSING... the author's pleasantly archaic language and her lush, evocative descriptions bring the devout but disquieting world of medieval England brilliantly to life." -- Publishers Weekly

When the beloved Father Adam dies, Abbot Radulfus recommends the young priest Ailnoth for the parish of Holy Cross, known as the Foregate. Ailnoth has much to recommend him, but his zeal and lack of pity quickly alienate him from his flock. So much so that no one is truly sorry when his body is discovered in the millpond on Christmas morning.

Brother Cadfael, herbalist monk and amateur sleuth, fears murder, and because of Father Ailnoth's unholy zeal, the malefactor could be almost anyone. Worse yet, one of the prime suspects is Cadfael's friend Benet, a young man who arrived with Father Ailnoth and went right to work eagerly helping the monk in his Herbarium. With partisans of the dispossessed Empres Maud believed to be in the area, Cadfael wishe that his assistant's identity was not so clearly another piece of the mystery...

The RAVEN in the FOREGATE
"PURE PLEASURE... Peters's stories can be said to have everything-colorful monks, touching young love marvelous atmosphere, a fascinating and complex detective, and, most important of all, ingenious puzzles." -- The Armchair Detective

Ellis Peters: The Raven in the Foregate. The Twelfth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. Fawcett Crest, ISBN: 0449212254 (January, 1988), 197 p., $3.95.

Ellis Peters: The Raven in the Foregate (UK 1987)

From the Publisher:
Christmas, 1141 AD. Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross (known as the Foregate), a man of presence, scholarship and discipline, but neither humility nor the common touch. When he is found drowned in the mill-pond, suspicion is cast in many directions, not least towards a young man who came in the priest's train, sent to work in Brother Cadfael's garden. For he has little obvious priestly calling. Indeed, he soon attracts the friendship of a girl both beautiful and formidable.

To Brother Cadfael, once worldly, now dedicated, if gently cynical, is left the familiar task of sorting the complicated strands which define guilt and innocence.

THE RAVEN IN THE FOREGATE - another delightful episode in a compulsive and bestselling series.

Ellis Peters: The Raven in the Foregate. The Twelfth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael. Futura, ISBN: 0708829635 (June, 1987), 201 p., £2.50.