Mnišská kápě – Petersová Ellis (2024)

BROTHER CADFAEL MUST SOLVE A MURDER COMMITTED WITH A POISON HE HIMSELF MIXED... ***** It is December 1138, and the Shrewsbury monastery is preparing for the arrival of a new abbot. Before that, however, the landowner Gervase Bonel moves in behind its walls, having promised to bequeath his estate to the Benedictine order in exchange for a small house and care in his old age. ***** Prior Robert sends him half a roasted partridge as a welcome gift. But just a few bites in, Bonel becomes so ill that even the herbalist Brother Cadfael and the caregiver Edmund cannot help him. Both monks soon conclude that the dish was poisoned, and with nothing other than a hemlock ointment that Cadfael himself made. ***** The royal investigator Will Warden is called to the case, and his suspicion immediately falls on Bonel's stepson Edwin. He not only had access to the poisonous ointment and directly participated in the dinner, but he is also still Bonel's only heir due to the monastery's suspended transactions. However, Cadfael, who was close with his mother Richildis in his youth, does not believe in his guilt...