The Virgin in the Ice

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THE 'VIRGIN * I N THE • ICE
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The winter of 1139 will disrupt Drother CadfQel's tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disfrubing of events. Raging civil war hos sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester. Among rhem ore two orphons from a noble family, a boy of thirteen and an eighteen-yeor-old girl of grear beauty, and rheir companion, o young Benedictine nun. Duf the trio, oever reoching Shrewsbury, have disappeared somewhere in the wild countryside.
Codfoel feels afraid for these rhree lost lambs, but another call for help sends him to the Church of Saint Mary. A wounded monk, found naked and bleeding by the roadside, will surely die without Cadfael's healing arts. Why this holy man has been attacked and what his fevered ravings reveal soon give Drother Cadfael a clue to the fate of the missing travelers. Now Cadfael sets out on a dangerous quest to find rhem. The road will lead him to a chili and terrible murder and a tale of passion gone awry. And at... Tovább

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THE 'VIRGIN * I N THE • ICE
r i______t_i_¦
The winter of 1139 will disrupt Drother CadfQel's tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disfrubing of events. Raging civil war hos sent refugees fleeing north from Worcester. Among rhem ore two orphons from a noble family, a boy of thirteen and an eighteen-yeor-old girl of grear beauty, and rheir companion, o young Benedictine nun. Duf the trio, oever reoching Shrewsbury, have disappeared somewhere in the wild countryside.
Codfoel feels afraid for these rhree lost lambs, but another call for help sends him to the Church of Saint Mary. A wounded monk, found naked and bleeding by the roadside, will surely die without Cadfael's healing arts. Why this holy man has been attacked and what his fevered ravings reveal soon give Drother Cadfael a clue to the fate of the missing travelers. Now Cadfael sets out on a dangerous quest to find rhem. The road will lead him to a chili and terrible murder and a tale of passion gone awry. And at journey's end awaits a vision of what is best, and worst, in humankind in Ellis Peters's most stunning depicrion yet of war and love.
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"Some of the most elegant, unstilted prose being written in mystery."—Chicago Sun-Times
"Murderous though they be, the Ellis Peters r books set in 12th-century Britain have the freshness of a new world at dawn Peters weaves a complex, colorful and at times quite beautiful tapestrys. ' Medieval of course."—Houston Post Vissza