![]() ![]() Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Cadfael The devils novice Includes Exclusive audio comments by Derek Jacobi Ellis Peters biography and book list Read More. In his eight chronicle Brother Cadfael has to discover whether the tormented dreams of a young novice are somehow linked to the mysterious appearance of one of his superiors. ![]() Only Brother Cadfael believes in Meriet's innocence and only the good sleuth can uncover the truth before a boy's pure passion, not evil intent, leads a novice to the noose. THE DEVIL'S NOVICE by Ellis Peters RELEASE DATE: Another civilized foray into the 12th-century Benedictine monastery at Shrewbury, where Brother Cadfael (The Virgin in the Ice, etc.) continues to practice his skills with herbs, nostrums, and people in trouble. ![]() Shunned and feared, Meriet is soon linked to the missing priest's fate. ![]() Meriet, meek by day, is so racked by dreams at night that his howl earns him the nickname of the Devil's Novice. But inside the pale, Brother Cadfael's attention is turned on Meriet, a proud, secretive, nineteen-year-old novice who has been delivered to the abbey by his over-bearing father the Lord of Aspley, to begin a religious vocation. Outside the pale of the abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in September of the year of our Lord 1140, a priestly emissary for King Stephen has been reported missing. ![]()
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