If you had told me two weeks ago that today I would be enthusiastically recommending Cadfael to everyone I see, I would have thought you crazy. I’ve never been adverse to the charms of Masterpiece ...

Before Umberto Eco and CJ Sansom plundered the Middle Ages for literary gems there was the great Edith Pargeter, and Cadfael Good sirs! Fetch me my lute, that I may compose a plaint for the hand of – ...

The train from London crossed the Severn River beneath the walls of Shrewsbury Castle and stopped at the station. A small band of women stepped onto the platform and began to organize themselves.

Cadfael tells the story of the medieval detective monk, looking for two missing children, Yves and Ermina Hugonin and their Nun tutor Sister Hilaria. Whilst also looking after Brother Elyas who was ...

At and around the Shrewsbury abbey, Brother Cadfael is a monk with a difference. Given a choice, he would enjoy just being a simple gardener and herbalist for his home. However, too often events force ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. This year marks the centenary of the birth of Edith Pargeter on September 28, 1913. Who was Edith ...

Brother Cadfael is a twelfth-century Anglo-Welsh monk. A retired crusader disappointed in love, and now a herbalist in charge of the gardens of Shrewsbury Abbey, Brother Cadfael is often called on to ...

Brother Cadfael, 12th-century herbalist, sleuth and sometime cupid, outdoes himself in this, his 16th chronicle, in which Peters imbues the familiar territory of murder, young love and odious ...

In the winter of 1139 and amid civil war, Brother Cadfael sets out to find a missing boy and his sister ...

Cadfael is a lot like Law & Order: Game of Thrones, and is undoubtedly the most metal Masterpiece Mystery series of all time.