A Rare Benedictine vs The Weaver's Inheritance: Which Should You Read?

A Rare Benedictine Edith Pargeter · 1988 ★★★★☆ 3.8 150 pages · ≈ 2 h 47 m · Challenging

“Jacob of Bouldon was a sturdy, square-set young fellow from the south of the shire, with a round, amiable face, large, candid eyes, and a ready smile. He came with a vellum leaf doubled in one hand, and a pen behind his ear, in every particular the eager, hard-working clerk. A little too open to any man's approaches, perhaps, as his master had said. The lanky, narrow-headed fellow attentive at”

These three short stories form a prequel to the Ellis Peters series featuring Brother Cadfael, a medieval monk detective. The first story describes the circumstances around Brother Cadfael’s decision to renounce his…

The Weaver's Inheritance Kate Sedley · 2001 ★★★★☆ 3.9 247 pages · ≈ 4 h 34 m · Moderate

Roger the Chapman series #8 Chapman 08 - The long-lost son of a wealthy weaver, thought murdered six years before, has reappeared, to the joy of the old man but to the indignation of Alison Burnett, who refuses to…