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Brother Cadfael must intervene when a prisoner exchange is interrupted by love and murder, in the Silver Dagger Award-winning medieval mystery series. In February of 1141, men march home from war to Shrewsbury, but the captured sheriff Gilbert Prestcote is not among them. Elis, a young Welsh prisoner, is delivered to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul to begin a tale that will test Brother Cadfael's sense of justice--and his heart. By good fortune, it seems, the prisoner can be exchanged as Sheriff Prestcote's ransom. What no one expects is that good-natured Elis will be struck down by cupid's arrow. The sheriff's own daughter holds him in thrall, and she, too, is blind with passion. But regaining her father means losing her lover. The sheriff, ailing and frail, is brought to the abbey's infirmary--where he is murdered. Suspicion falls on the prisoner, who has only his Welsh honor to gain Brother Cadfael's help. And Cadfael gives it, not knowing the truth will be a trial for his own soul.… (plus d'informations)
1141, la guerre fait rage entre l’Angleterre et le pays de Galles, avec ses batailles, pillages, prisonniers et demandes de rançon. Et pourtant l’amour courtois existe aussi. On retrouve à nouveau avec plaisir Frère Cadfael et ses aventures qui mêlent adroitement intrigues et références historiques et culturelles. ( )
En l’an de grà¢ce 1141, période troublée par l’ambition de deux demi-frères avides de fonder chacun son propre royaume, frère Cadfael prie tout particulièrement pour que se réconcilient les hommes de cette terre chaotique et divisée qu’est le royaume d’Angleterre. Il ignore encore qu’il sera mêlé d’ici peu à une nouvelle énigme, lors d’un échange d’otages dont dépend le sort du comté de Shrewsbury et peut-être même celui de tout le pays…
Ce qu’on adore dans le roman policier anglais, c’est le côté vieille dame tricotant ses crimes, au fond d’un cottage perché sur une lande venteuse, comme la chère Ellis Peters. [...] Auteur de best-sellers internationaux, Ellis.Peters peut se vanter d’avoir battu Agatha Christie au poteau. »
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On that day, which was the seventh of February of the year of Our Lord 1141, they had offered special prayers at every office, not for the victory of one party or the defeat of another in the battlefields of the north, but for better counsel, for reconciliation, for the sparing of blood-letting and the respect of life between men of the same country - all desirable consummations, as Brother Cadfael sighed to himself even as he prayed, but very unlikely to be answered in this torn and fragmented land with any but a very dusty answer.
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'I hope we have made, between us all, the best of a great ill, and who said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies her privilege of mercy. But even God, when he intends mercy, needs tools to his hand.'
Brother Cadfael must intervene when a prisoner exchange is interrupted by love and murder, in the Silver Dagger Award-winning medieval mystery series. In February of 1141, men march home from war to Shrewsbury, but the captured sheriff Gilbert Prestcote is not among them. Elis, a young Welsh prisoner, is delivered to the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul to begin a tale that will test Brother Cadfael's sense of justice--and his heart. By good fortune, it seems, the prisoner can be exchanged as Sheriff Prestcote's ransom. What no one expects is that good-natured Elis will be struck down by cupid's arrow. The sheriff's own daughter holds him in thrall, and she, too, is blind with passion. But regaining her father means losing her lover. The sheriff, ailing and frail, is brought to the abbey's infirmary--where he is murdered. Suspicion falls on the prisoner, who has only his Welsh honor to gain Brother Cadfael's help. And Cadfael gives it, not knowing the truth will be a trial for his own soul.
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