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The Leper of Saint Giles

The Fifth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael

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The Leper of Saint Giles

Written by: Ellis Peters
Narrated by: Johanna Ward
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 Setting out for the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael has more pressing matters on his mind than the grand wedding coming to his abbey. Yet as fate would have it, Cadfael arrives at Saint Giles just as the nuptial party passes the colony's gates. He sees the fragile bride looking like a prisoner between her two stern guardians and the bridegroom, an arrogant, fleshy aristocrat old enough to be her grandfather. And he quickly discerns this union may be more damned than blessed. Indeed, a savage murder will interrupt the May-December marriage and leave Brother Cadfael with a dark, terrible mystery to solve. For the key to the killing - and a secret - are hid among the lepers of Saint Giles. Now Brother Cadfael's skills must ferret out a sickness, not of the body, but of a twisted soul - in the fifth Brother Cadfael Chronicle, a work that displays Ellis Peters' special genius at her best.©1981 by Ellis Peters (P)1998 by Blackstone Audiobooks Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives

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"Each addition to the series is a joy. Long may the Chronicles continue." (USA Today)
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Liked this Cadfael novel, as I do most Cadfael novels. The narration was especially good, and I am quite astonished at some of the negative comments on this particular narrator. On the contrary, the narration was excellent, and I am a non native English speaker.

Great story, excellent narration.

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