A Morbid Taste for Bones
Subtitle: The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
Series: Brother Cadfael (1)
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Published: January 1, 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780446400152
First sentence: outside the monastic enclave, but here, in the enclosed garden within the walls, close to the abbot's fishponds and the brook that worked the abbey mill, Brother Cadfael ruled unchallenged. The herbarium in particular was his kingdom, for he had built it up gradually through the fifteen years of labour, and added to it many exotic plants of his own careful raising, collected in a roving youth that had taken him as far afield as Venice, and Cyprus and the Holy Land.