Svatý zloděj – Petersová Ellis (2023)

A NEW CASE AWAITS BROTHER CADFAEL THIS TIME IN THE RUINS OF THE SHREWSBURY MONASTERY... Early in the spring of the year of Our Lord 1144, the Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul in Shrewsbury is struck by floods. When the river returns to its banks, the horrified brothers discover that the relics of St. Winifred, the patroness of the monastery, have disappeared. Did the great water take them? Or does one of the visitors to the abbey have a hand in this mystery? And indeed, a truly colorful collection of visitors gathered there in that unkind time. Two wandering Benedictine monks, the Earl of Leicester, an elderly troubadour with his servant and singer... The experienced judge of human nature, Brother Cadfael, has suspicions from the very beginning that not everyone among them is as they seem at first glance. The shadow of suspicion quickly settles on the shoulders of the insincerely acting Benedictine Tutilus. His guilt or innocence could be confirmed by an eyewitness, but before he gets the chance to speak, he is deliberately murdered. Someone is clearly trying to cover their tracks...