Leper of Saint Giles (Brother Cadfael Mysteries)

Description

Brother Cadfael must travel to the heart of a leper colony to root out the secret to 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. 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 Cadfael with a dark, terrible mystery 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.

First Sentence

Brother Cadfael set out from the gatehouse, that Monday afternoon of October, in the year 1139, darkly convinced that something ominous would have happened before he re-entered the great court, though he had no reason to suppose that he would be absent more than an hour or so.

Subjects

Series Statement

• Brother Cadfael (5)

Other Editions

• Leper of Saint Giles (Brother Cadfael Mysteries)Mysterious Press1995-01-01
• The Leper of Saint GilesBallantine Books1981-01-01
• The leper of Saint GilesMacmillan1981-01-01
• The Leper of Saint GilesHardcoverUlverscroft Large Print1983-09-01
• The leper of Saint GilesFutura1984-01-01
• The Leper of Saint Giles (Brother Cadfael Mysteries)Fawcett1985-02-12