One Corpse Too Many

One Corpse Too Many

Ellis Peters

This is the second in the Brother Cadfael Chronicles and the first in the series that I've read.

The year is 1138, and war rages between the forces of King Stephen and those of Empress Maud. At Shrewesbury, where Brother Cadfael is living out his vocation is a Benedictine monk and tending to the gardens and herbarium of Shrewesbury Abbey, King Stephen has given the order to hang a number of men who have been condemned to death as traitors.

Brother Cadfael has taken on the task of perparing the bodies for Christian burials. When he discovers that there is one more body than there was supposed to be, he also takes on the task of finding finding the murderer.

I became so smitten with this book, that I rushed to the library to check out the first in the series.

This was an intelligent mystery that was well-articulated, and a real pleasure to read.

I intend to eventually read the entire series, in order. I've decided not to devour them all at once, though, but to savor them a bit at a time, and make them last - like the most delicious dessert that you would like to make last forever!