29/04/1994 One Corpse Too Many
Brother Cadfael
has settled down to a quiet religious life at Shrewsbury Abbey after an adventurous, and far from monastic, youth. But when
he uncovers a murder, he turns detective to solve the crime.
05/06/1994 The Sanctuary
Sparrow
When Shrewsbury's
goldsmith is robbed and left for dead, the locals launch a witch-hunt. Pursued by the mob, the prime suspect, a young juggler
who performed at the wedding of the goldsmith's son, seeks sanctuary at the Abbey. But as Cadfael investigates, a second body
is found floating in the River Severn.
12/06/1994 The Leper of
St Giles
A great wedding
is to take place at the Abbey, between a beautiful young girl and a powerful baron. But this is no love match, and when the
baron disappears before the wedding, Cadfael is on the case.
19/06/1994 Monk's Hood
A rich landowner
cuts his stepson out of his will to leave his fortune to Shrewsbury Abbey, and is found poisoned. When Cadfael is called in
to investigate, he is shocked to find that the dead man's wife is his own childhood sweetheart, whom he has not seen for forty
years.
26/12/1995 The Virgin
in the Ice
Cadfael's novice,
Brother Oswin, is found close to death, babbling about a woman. When a nun is found raped, murdered and encased in the ice
of a frozen stream, Oswin is accused of murder. Cadfael tracks the nun's companion, Ermina Hugonin, and sets out to prove
Oswin's innocence.
18/08/1996 The Devil's
Novice
A rich priest is
found killed, and the finger of suspicion points to a new monk at Shrewsbury Abbey. Meanwhile, a civil war raging around England
is piling political pressures on the Abbot. Cadfael investigates the murder and uncovers a tangled web of dishonesty and nepotism.
25/08/1996 A Morbid Taste
for Bones
The monks of Shrewsbury
go to Wales to recover the bones of St Winifred. But their
attempted bribery of the Welsh puts them at odds with the local residents - and when the local landowner is found murdered,
the monks are regarded as prime suspects.
12/08/1997 The Rose Rent
The recently-widowed
wife, Judith Perle, of a rich merchant becomes the object of interest for the men of Shrewsbury.
But then a monk and one of her suitors are murdered.
19/08/1997 St. Peter's
Fair
Cadfael puts Hugh
Beringar to the test, and Hugh has to choose between loyalty to the king and friendship with Cadfael. Meanwhile, at the annual St Peter's Fair in Shrewsbury, townspeople
come into conflict with the Abbey's officers and with visiting merchants. A curfew is ordered, but not fully observed - then
Cadfael finds he has a murder to solve.
26/08/1997 The Raven in
the Foregate
Cadfael is on a
double murder hunt following the deaths of a pregnant girl and the priest who refused to take her confession.
23/06/1998 The Holy Thief
Dalny, a beautiful
slave girl, is abducted from the Abbey - and the relics of St Winifred are also spirited away, apparently by the same thief.
Cadfael is commissioned to find them both.
23/12/1998 The Potter's
Field
A potter's wife
dies suddenly, and he gives up his old life to enter the Abbey, but the other monks suspect him of having killed his wife.
As Cadfael investigates the death he finds a curious web of jealousy, infidelity and suicide.
28/12/1998 The Pilgrim
of Hate
The dead body of
an elderly man is found hidden in a sack at the Abbey, and Cadfael believes he was murdered. The principal suspects are a
group of pilgrims, who include two known thieves. Cadfael locks them up, in a bid to draw out the killer.