num_pages: 248
description: When a newly plowed field recently given to the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul yields the body of a young woman, Brother Cadfael is quickly thrown into a delicate situation. The field was once owned by a local potter named Ruald, who had abandoned his beautiful wife, Generys, to take monastic vows. Generys was said to have gone away with a lover, but now it seems as if she had been murdered. With the arrival at the abbey of young Sulien Blount, a novice fleeing homeward from the civil war raging in East Anglia, the mysteries surrounding the corpse start to multiply.
title: potter's field: the seventeenth chronicle of Brother Cadfael
titlecomplete: potter's field: the seventeenth chronicle of Brother Cadfael
characters: Brother Cadfael
genres: Historical, Crime, Historical Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Medieval, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Detective, Mystery, British Literature
ratings_count: 6009
places: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
series: Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
awards: awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Stoddart