The Raven in the Foregate (Brother Cadfael Series #12)

by Ellis Peters

Overview

It is Christmas, A.D. 1141, Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross, also known as the Foregate. The new priest is a man of presence, learning, and discipline, but he lacks humility and the common touch. When he is found drowned in the millpond, suspicion is cast upon a young man who arrived with the priest's train and was sent to work in Brother Cadfael's garden. Indeed, he is soon discovered to be an impostor. To Brother Cadfael, now falls the familiar task of sorting out the complicated strands of innocence and guilt.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780446405348
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	11/01/1997
Series:	Brother Cadfael Series , #12
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.55(d)
Age Range:	13 Years

About the Author

Ellis Peters (1913-1995) was the pen name of English novelist Edith Pargeter, author of scores of books under her own name. She was a recipient of the Silver Dagger Award and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, conferred by the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain, as well as the coveted Edgar, awarded by the Mystery Writers of America.

Vanessa Benjamin (a.k.a. Roe Kendall) is a native of the British Isles. Some twenty-five years ago she moved to the United States with her family and set down roots in Maryland. She graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, receiving their silver medal as well as the Sir Emile Littler and Caryl Brahms awards. Benjamin has performed on stage in the Washington, DC, area for several years and at many venues and has performed at the Kennedy Center as Mrs. Schubert in the long-running show Shear Madness. An accomplished actress and narrator, she has recorded over two hundred books. Her work as a freelance voice-over artist and narrator has led her in many interesting directions, from technical government materials to eighteenth-century romance novels to hotel advertising, but narrating books is what she really enjoys. I really love playing all the parts when I narrate a book. It's an adventure, a challenge, and above all I feel that I learn something new with each book I read. I do a lot of reading for the Library of Congress' Blind and Physically Handicapped program, and it is so rewarding for me especially when I get a letter from a patron; it's a great service for the listener.

Editorial Reviews

Absorbing...A source of far more pleasure than The Name of the Rose...Brohter Cadfael's Aristotelian eye is, as usual, tempered by an instinctive knowledge of the human soul.

Detroit News

Some of the most elegant, unstilted prose being written in mystery novels. [Peters'] chronicles of twelfth-century abbey life in England...have made her a best-selling phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic.

Chicago Sun-Times

Enchanting...medieval England comes marvelously alive.

Washington Post