![]() ![]() The level of detail threaded throughout the narrative helps to paint a vivid and realistic town, peopled with real characters, during this turbulent period of English history. We are also introduced to a number of characters who we will meet many times as we move through the series. A man has been murdered, his body smuggled in amongst the executed garrison.Īs the first book in the Cadfael Chronicles takes us on a journey to rural Wales to retrieve a Welsh saint’s bones, One Corpse Too Many offers us a greater glimpse into the world of medieval Shrewsbury and its surrounds, as well as a closer look at the abbey itself, which is Brother Cadfael’s home. ![]() The Abbot Heribert naturally chooses to send Brother Cadfael, a former soldier and crusader to oversee this grisly task but what he is confronted with is more than the king’s justice. Paul’s to help identify the dead and prepare them for Christian burial. Once the punishment has been meted out, he sends for the Benedictine brothers at St. Besieged, the town falls to the king and orders the execution of the castle’s garrison. One Corpse Too Many is the second book in the Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters.Īs the Anarchy rages across England, the town of Shrewsbury has changed its allegiance from King Stephen to the Empress Maud. ![]()
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