7 must-read fiction books like A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5) by Ellis Peters

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A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

By: Ellis Peters

4.07

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Peters has gained worldwide praise for her meticulous re-creations of 12th-century monastic life. H…

"Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity."

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

"If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still."

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

"And who knows, thought Cadfael, which is in the right, the young man who sees the best in all, and trusts all, or the old one who suspects all until he has probed them through and through? The one may stumble into a snare now and then, but at least enjoy sunshine along the way, between falls. The other may never miss his footing, but seldom experience joy. Better find a way somewhere between!"

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

If you liked the fiction plot in A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5) by Ellis Peters , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. The Fashion in Shrouds (Albert Campion Mystery, #10)

By: Margery Allingham

3.93

Format: 579 pages, Hardcover

Detective Albert Campion has a talented dress designer sister with celebrated clients. Georgia Well… read more

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  • historical
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  • historical fiction
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"There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world."

-Margery Allingham, The Fashion in Shrouds (Albert Campion Mystery, #10)

"Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which ar…"

-Margery Allingham, The Fashion in Shrouds (Albert Campion Mystery, #10)

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2. The Nun's Tale (Owen Archer, #3)

By: Candace Robb

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

Spring 1366, Beverley, England--a ghostly pale young woman claims to be the resurrected Joanna Calv… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • medieval
  • crime
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3. Sweet Danger (Albert Campion Mystery #5)

By: Margery Allingham

3.57

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The impoverished Fitton family inhabit a run-down mill in a Suffolk village, and suspect their brot… read more

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4. Traitor's Purse (Albert Campion Mystery #11)

By: Margery Allingham

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

Celebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital accused of attacking a police office… read more

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5. Look to the Lady (Albert Campion Mystery #3)

By: Margery Allingham

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

A ring of international thieves target the Gyrth Chalice, a priceless goblet held by centuries of G… read more

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6. Clutch of Constables (Roderick Alleyn, #25)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Five Days Out of Time ... that was how the ad had described the Zodiaccruise on the "weirdly misted… read more

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7. The Lady Chapel (Owen Archer, #2)

By: Candace Robb

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

Owen Archer, the intriguing Welsh archer-turned-sleuth, is back-in another riveting challenge to El… read more

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8. The Apothecary Rose (Owen Archer, #1)

By: Candace Robb

3.50

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Once the king's captain of archers, now he must penetrate a poisoner's secrets... Christmastide, 13… read more

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9. High Rising

By: Angela Thirkell

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

In Angela Thirkell's first Barsetshire novel, she sets the plot pattern which will be played out in… read more

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10. Police at the Funeral (Albert Campion Mystery #4)

By: Margery Allingham

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The imperious Caroline Faraday runs her house like a Victorian fiefdom, unconcerned with the fact t… read more

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11. Mystery Mile (Albert Campion Mystery #2)

By: Margery Allingham

3.86

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

Judge Crowdy Lobbett has found evidence pointing to the identity of the criminal mastermind behind … read more

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12. Yours Sincerely, Giraffe

By: Jun Takabatake , Megumi Iwasa

4.11

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Giraffe is bored, as usual. He'd love a friend to share things with. So he writes a letter and send… read more

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13. The Novice's Tale (Sister Frevisse, #1)

By: Margaret Frazer

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

It is the year of Our Lord's grace 1431, and the nuns of England's St. Frideswide sweetly chant the… read more

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14. Hand in Glove (Roderick Alleyn, #22)

By: Ngaio Marsh

3.46

Format: None pages,

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15. The Richest Man in Town (Stephen Attebrook Mysteries #14)

By: Jason Vail

4.44

Format: 0 pages, Kindle Edition

Harry Carver, the legless artisan, and his wife Joan find the corpse of the richest man in Ludlow i… read more

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Cover of The Resurrection Mystery (The Detective Lavender Mysteries Book 7) by Karen Charlton

16. The Resurrection Mystery (The Detective Lavender Mysteries Book 7)

By: Karen Charlton

4.67

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

A corpse rises from the dead in the morgue at Guy's Hospital, and his missing pantaloons appear to … read more

Similar categories in Karen Charlton's The Resurrection Mystery (The Detective Lavender Mysteries Book 7) book and Ellis Peters's A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
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17. A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

By: Ellis Peters

4.07

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Peters has gained worldwide praise for her meticulous re-creations of 12th-century monastic life. H… read more

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"Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity."

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

"If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to r…"

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

"And who knows, thought Cadfael, which is in the right, the young man who sees the best in all, and trusts all, or the old one who suspects all until he has probed them through and through? The one ma…"

-Ellis Peters, A Rare Benedictine: The Advent of Brother Cadfael (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #0.5)

Cover of The Field of Blood (The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan #9) by Paul  Doherty

18. The Field of Blood (The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan #9)

By: Paul Doherty

4.38

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

A murder close to home leaves Athelstan with his most dangerous case yet... After the discovery … read more

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  • fiction
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  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • medieval
  • crime
Cover of Murder of Innocents: A Redmond and Haze Mystery Book 14 (Redmond and Haze Mysteries) by Irina Shapiro

19. Murder of Innocents: A Redmond and Haze Mystery Book 14 (Redmond and Haze Mysteries)

By: Irina Shapiro

4.58

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Summoned to a historic Tudor manor, Jason and Daniel are charged with investigating the heart-wrenc… read more

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  • mystery
  • historical
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Cover of Cadfael Country: Shropshire & The Welsh Border by Rob Talbot

20. Cadfael Country: Shropshire & The Welsh Border

By: Rob Talbot

4.13

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Cadfael Country is a celebration of the world of Ellis Peters and the medieval sleuth she has creat… read more

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21. The Lily Hand: And Other Stories

By: Ellis Peters

4.02

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

A collection of stories about life and death—and everything in between—from brilliant mystery autho… read more

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