A Morbid Taste for Bones
Series: Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, 1
Publisher: Fawcett
Published: May 12, 1985
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780449207000
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.