Christmas AD 1141.
Abbot Radulfus returns from London bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross (known as the Foregate) a man of presence scholarship and discipline but neither humility nor the common touch. When he is found drowned in the mill-pond suspicion is cast in many directions not least towards a young man who came in the priest’s train sent to work in Brother Cadfael’s garden. For he has little obvious priestly calling. Indeed he soon attracts the friendship of a girl both beautiful and formidable.
To Brother Cadfael is left the familiar task of sorting the complicated strands that define guilt and innocence.
A Blackstone Audio production.
