Ellis Peters’s Chronicles of Brother Cadfael—the complete series of 21 volumes—will be published as ebooks on August 5, 2014. Recipient of both an Edgar Award and a Dagger Award, Ellis Peters and her series about a Welsh Benedictine monk are credited with popularizing the historical mystery genre.
Sometimes called the “Sherlock Holmes of the church,” the first Brother Cadfael novel, A Morbid Taste for Bones,was published in 1977 and adapted into several made-for-television movies and a successful TV series as part of PBS’s Mystery! Rich with local setting and historical details, the iconic Cadfael series portrays life during a period of conflict for the British crown, between AD 1120 and AD 1145.
“Ellis Peters has been regarded as the Queen of Historical Mystery Fiction for four decades—the British Crime Writers’ Association established their Ellis Peters Historical Award for the best historical crime novel of the year. The pinnacle of her achievements is the 21-volume series about Brother Cadfael, a medieval Benedictine monk, that combines romance and detective fiction and achieved best-seller status in both the United States and Great Britain, as well as inspiring a popular television series that starred Derek Jacobi.” —Otto Penzler, proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop and publisher, MysteriousPress.com
Ellis Peters is one of several pseudonyms used by Edith Mary Pargeter (1913–1995), a prolific author of fiction, as well as nonfiction works, who is best known for her murder mysteries, both historical and modern.
Titles now available as ebooks from MysteriousPress.com and Open Road Media include: A Morbid Taste for Bones, One Corpse Too Many, and A Rare Benedictine, a collection of three short stories.
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About Open Road Media
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