A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)

Book #1 from the series: Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
🎧Run Time = 8 hours and 45 minutes

Cadfael's return to his Welsh homeland for a visit proves a rather discomfiting homecoming when an honorable nobleman turns up in a patch of forest with an arrow embedded in his chest. There are questions about the arrow, the man's daughter needs Cadfael's help, and a very odd burial takes place.

The first book in a beloved historical mystery series penned by an Edgar Award and CWA Diamond Dagger winner! In 1137, Benedictine monk and Crusades veteran Brother Cadfael is sent to Wales to recover a saint’s body and stumbles into a town divided — and a fresh murder. “Compelling reading… A delightful, pleasantly romantic medieval whodunit” (The Washington Post).
On an expedition to acquire a saint’s remains, Brother Cadfael instead finds intrigue and murder

It is 1137, and the ambitious head of the Shrewsbury Abbey wishes to acquire the remains of Saint Winifred for the glory of his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part of the expedition sent to the saint’s final resting place in Wales, where he finds the villagers divided over the Benedictines’ quest.

When the leading opponent to moving the grave is shot dead with a mysterious arrow, some believe Winifred herself delivered the blow. Brother Cadfael knows that an earthly hand did the killing. But he doesn’t know that his plan to root out a murderer may dig up a case of love and justice, where the waves of sin may be scandal—or his own ruin. View Less