num_pages: 256
description: In a mild December in the year of our Lord 1141, a new priest comes to the parishoners of the Foregate outside the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. Father Ailnoth brings with him a housekeeper and her nephew- and a disposition that invites murder. Brother Cadfael quickly sees that Father Ailnoth is a harsh man who behaves like a doom-saying raven. The housekeeper's nephew, Benet, is quite different, a smiling lad, a hard worker in Cadfael's herb garden but, as Brother Cadfael soon discovers, an impostor. And when Ailnoth is found drowned, suspicion falls on Benet, though many in the Foregate had cause to want the priest dead. Now Brother Cadfael is gathering clues along with his medicinals to treat a case of unholy passions, tragic politics, and perhaps divine intervention.
language: English
title: The Raven in the Foregate
titlecomplete: The Raven in the Foregate (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #12)
characters: Hugh Beringar, Brother Jerome, Brother Cadfael, Abbot Radulfus, Cynric the Verger
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, British Literature, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Historical Mystery, Medieval, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 6088
series: Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
publisher: Little Brown and Company