Elsa Pelitti Books

In 1137 the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part of the expedition sent to her final resting place in Wales and they find the villagers passionately divided by the Benedictines' offer for the saint's relics. Canny, wise and all too worldly, Cadfael isn't surprised when this taste for bones leads to a bloody murder. The leading opponent to moving the grave has been shot dead with a mysterious arrow, and some say Winifred herself dealt the blow. Brother Cadfael knows that a carnal hand did the killing, but he doesn't know that his plan to unearth a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice, where the wages of sin may be a scandal- or his own ruin.

A savage murder interrupts an ill-fated marriage set to take place at Brother Cadfael's abbey, leaving the monk with a terrible mystery to solve. The key to the killing is hidden among the inhabitants of the Saint Giles leper colony, and Brother Cadfael must ferret out a sickness not of the body, but of a twisted mind.

Christmas, 1141 AD. Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross (known as the Foregate), a man of presence, scholarship and discipline, but neither humility nor the common touch. When he is found drowned in the mill-pond, suspicion is cast in many directions, not least towards a young man who came in the priest's train, sent to work in Brother Cadfael's garden. For he has little obvious priestly calling. Indeed, he soon attracts the friendship of a girl both beautiful and formidable. To Brother Cadfael, once worldly, now dedicated, if gently cynical, is left the familiar task of sorting the complicated strands which define guilt and innocence.

In his ninth outing the beloved Brother Cadafel must helps a lovelorn young Welshman accused of murdering a sheriff.*

È giovane Bobby Callahan, e doveva anche essere un bel ragazzo, prima che un pauroso incidente d'auto lo riducesse in quello stato. Quell'incidente gli ha tolto quasi tutto: la giovinezza, la forza, la lucidità e il suo migliore amico. Bobby non ricorda più nulla ma sa che qualcuno voleva ucciderlo, forse per farlo tacere, forse per impedirgli di svelare qualcosa che ora non riesce più a ricordare... Alla disperata ricerca di qualche indizio, chiede aiuto a Kinsey Millhone. Dire di no a una richiesta del genere non è nello stile di Kinsey, che comincia a raccogliere informazioni, per un'indagine destinata a trasformarsi in pochissimo tempo in qualcosa di molto più pericoloso...