The Raven in the Foregate
Subtitle: The twelfth chronicle of Brother Cadfael
By: Ellis Peters.
Series: Chronicles of Brother Cadfael -- 12
Publisher: Futura
Published: 1987
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780708829639
Subjects: Crime
Genres: Fiction; Crime
First sentence: Abbot Radulfus came to chapter, on this first day of December, with a preoccupied and frowning face, and made short work of the various trivialities brought up by his obedientiaries.
Description: Christmas, 1141 AD. Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross (known as the Foregate), a man of presence, scholarship and discipline, but neither humility nor the common touch. When he is found drowned in the mill-pond, suspicion is cast in many directions, not least towards a young man who came in the priest's train, sent to work in Brother Cadfael's garden. For he has little obvious priestly calling. Indeed, he soon attracts the friendship of a girl both beautiful and formidable.

To Brother Cadfael, once worldly, now dedicated, if gently cynical, is left the familiar task of sorting the complicated strands which define guilt and innocence.
Notes: Originally published, London , Macmillan, 1986.