I've just about finished listening to this Brother Cadfael mystery. From reading some of the blurbs on the others in the series, I discovered that Ellis Peters is a pseudonym for a female author whose name I can't remember. She apparently wrote quite a bit under her own name. Anyway, this is the second one I've read. It's apparently the third in the series. The first one I read was somewhere around the ninth or so.
This has been a rather simple and formulaic mystery. The characterizations are what make it enjoyable. One of the best things about the recorded version is that the reader, Patrick Tull, pronounces all these Welsh names that I would butcher.
Mike and I enjoyed watching the Cadfael series on PBS several years ago. WE also really enjoyed the Sherlock Holmes series, but those have not been aired for a very long time. I'm not sure what is up with Mystery anymore. It seems as if all I get on PBS these days is some person standing on a stage telling me how to develop my potential. Mom
Posted by: Susan McJilton at April 14, 2004 4:26 PM