The Recurring Cast
Character guide · 20 books · 1977 to 1994 · Set in Shrewsbury

Ellis Peters

Crime and mysteryAmateur sleuthHistorical crime

Brother Cadfael, a Welsh monk who was once a soldier and sailor, tends the herb garden at Shrewsbury Abbey during the civil war of the 1130s and 1140s and solves murders with his friend, the young sheriff Hugh Beringar.

Best estimate, compiled from series guides, publisher descriptions and reviews where available, and from memory otherwise. Book level only, not chapter level. Minor includes cameos and brief references. Each book carries a confidence rating in its tooltip. Ellis Peters was the pen name of Edith Pargeter. Her Inspector Felse novels and the Cadfael short stories are left out.

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Brother Cadfael

20 books · Set in ShrewsburyHistorical crimeAmateur sleuth
  1. 1A Morbid Taste for Bones1977With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  2. 2One Corpse Too Many1979With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  3. 3Monk’s Hood1980With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  4. 4Saint Peter’s Fair1981With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  5. 5The Leper of Saint Giles1981With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  6. 6The Virgin in the Ice1982With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  7. 7The Sanctuary Sparrow1983With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  8. 8The Devil’s Novice1983With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  9. 9Dead Man’s Ransom1984With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  10. 10The Pilgrim of Hate1984With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  11. 11An Excellent Mystery1985With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  12. 12The Raven in the Foregate1986With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  13. 13The Rose Rent1986With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  14. 14The Hermit of Eyton Forest1987With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  15. 15The Confession of Brother Haluin1988With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  16. 16The Heretic’s Apprentice1989With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  17. 17The Potter’s Field1989With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  18. 18The Summer of the Danes1991With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  19. 19The Holy Thief1992With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon
  20. 20Brother Cadfael’s Penance1994With Brother CadfaelBuy on Amazon

Characters

9 recurring and key characters, with the book each one first appears in.

Shrewsbury Abbey and town