num_pages: 224
description: Brother Cadfael’s pastoral life is upended by the disappearance of a young boy and the arrival of a saintly hermit.The year is 1142, and England is in the grip of civil war. Within the cloisters of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, there begins a chain of events no less momentous than the upheavals of the outside world.It starts with the sad demise of Richard Ludel, Lord of Eyton, whose ten-year-old son and heir, also named Richard, is a pupil at the abbey. The boy refuses to surrender his newly inherited powers to Dionysia, his furious, formidable grandmother. A stranger to the region is the hermit Cuthred, who enjoys the protection of Lady Dionysia, and whose young companion, Hyacinth, befriends Richard. Despite his reputation for holiness, Cuthred’s arrival heralds a series of mishaps for the monks. When a corpse is found in Eyton forest, Brother Cadfael must devote his knowledge of human nature to tracking down a ruthless murderer.
language: English
title: The Hermit of Eyton Forest
titlecomplete: The Hermit of Eyton Forest (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #14)
genres: Historical Mystery, British Literature, Historical, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Medieval, Crime
ratings_count: 5747
places: Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
series: Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
publisher: Sphere