Russell's ebook Library
Black Is the Colour of My True-Love's Heart
Ellis Peters
Felse [6]: Various singers and folk musicians are gathered for a folk music course that will be held in an impressive country mansion called Follymead. Most have come to sing or to listen, but some also have the intention os settling old scores. In p...
Brother Cadfael's Penance
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [20]: The cloistered walls of Shrewsbury Abbey have always protected Brother Cadfael from the raging Civil War. But when fighting escalates between Empress Maud and King Stephen, the war takes a deadly step closer to him. Taken prisoner in th...
City of Gold and Shadows
Ellis Peters
Felse [12]: The ancient Roman city exuded evil. From the moment she entered the walls of Aurae Phiala, Chrlotte Rossignol knew her life was in danger. But she coudn't turn back. As the only surviving heir of Dr. Alan Morris, she would never rest unti...
The Confession of Brother Haluin
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [15]: In the winter of 1142, snow blankets the Bendictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul causing damage to the guest hall, and the brothers must repair its roof before the danger worsens. The treacherously icy conditions are to prove nig...
Dead Man's Ransom
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [9]: It is 1141 and civil war continues to rage. The Sheriff of Shropshire and the king are taken prisoner by his enemies. An exchange of valuable prisoners is arranged, but before the exchange is completed, a murder takes place.
Death and the Joyful Woman
Ellis Peters
Felse [2]: A millionaire is murdered and Inspector Felse, after sifting through the few shreds of evidence, finally arrests Kitty Norris, his teenaged son Dominic's first love. A young man's infatuation soon becomes something far more dangerous, thou...
Death Mask
Ellis Peters
A student recruits his tutor to help him investigate his father's murderThe moment Evelyn Manville enlists in the British Army, his thoughts turn to Dorothy Grieve. He's loved her since they were children, and now he can finally ask her to be his wif...
Death to the Landlords
Ellis Peters
Felse [11]: Dominic Felse and the Swami Premanathanand, a man of peace, unravel a deadly Indian rope trick of hatred and murder when they try to discover who is behind the violent deaths of several landlords.
The Devil's Novice
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [8]: Outside the pale of the abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in September of the year of our Lord 1140, a priestly emissary for King Stephen has been reported missing. But inside the pale, Brother Cadfael's attention is turned on Meriet,...
An Excellent Mystery
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [11]: In 1141 England is still torn by the civil strife caused by the struggle for the throne between king Stephen and empress Maud. Among the victims of the carnage is the abbey of Hyde mead, totally destroyed. Its brothers are scattered far...
Fallen Into the Pit
Ellis Peters
Felse [1]: Best known in America for her brilliantly imagined twelfth-century Benedictine monk/detective, Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters has also enthralled fans on both sides of the Atlantic with her superbly constructed stories featuring British pol...
Flight of a Witch
Ellis Peters
Felse [3]: Annet Beck has the kind of breathtaking beauty that strikes people dumb, and young teacher Tom Kenyon, a lodger in her parents' house, is no exception. When Annet disappears, Tom determines to find out where and why.
The Grass Widow's Tale
Ellis Peters
Felse [7]: When George Felse finds himself called away to London on urgent police business, his wife Bunty is left alone feeling depressed on the eve of her 41st birthday. To shake off her black mood she goes out to the local pub where a chance meeti...
The Heretic's Apprentice
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [16]: In the summer of 1143, William of Lythwood returns to Shrewsbury in a coffin... his pilgrimage at last at an end. William's young attendant, Elave, accompanies the body and sets about trying to secure a burial place on the grounds of th...
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [14]: The year is 1142, and all England is in the iron grip of a civil war. And within the sheltered cloisters of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, there begins a chain of events no less momentous than the political upheava...
Holiday with Violence
Ellis Peters
A quartet of traveling students stumbles into a deadly conspiracyWhen the door opens, Signor Galassi flinches, fearing that someone has come to relieve him of the precious cargo he's transporting back from France. But it's only four harmless students...
The Holy Thief
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [19]: At the height of the hot summer of 1144, a lucky hit by one of King Stephen's archers rids the Fen country of Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, who has amassed his castles and gold by robbing rich and poor alike. Thus, the Benedict...
The House of Green Turf
Ellis Peters
Felse [8]: A famous singer wakes up in hospital after a car crash, haunted by the certainty that she has been responsible for a death at some time in the past. She hires an private investigator, who launches a hunt across Europe - and the trail also ...
The Knocker on Death's Door
Ellis Peters
Felse [10]: The knocker hung on a very special door which was apparently cursed. Then the door was moved from an old house, once an abbey to the village church. Legend said that sinners who grasped the knocker had their hands burned by the cold iron....
The Leper of Saint Giles
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [5]: A marriage has been arranged, by greedy guardians, between an ageing nobleman and a very young woman. As both parties arrive in Shrewsbury for the ceremony there is a savage killing and Borther Cadfael is called upon to investigate. Outs...
Monk's Hood
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [3]: After the violence of spring, when the civil war between Stephen and Maud swept through the town, Shrewsbury has enjoyed a quiet summer. Now, at the beginning of autumn, all is peaceful - the harvest was good and the store cupboards are ...
A Morbid Taste for Bones
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [1]: Murder in the twelfth century is no different from murder today. There is still a dead body, though this time with an arrow through the heart instead of a bullet. There is still a need to bury the dead, to comfort the living - and to cat...
Mourning Raga
Ellis Peters
Felse [9]: As a favour to his girlfriend Tossa's beautiful but erratic filmstar mother, Dominic Felse agrees to escort a teenage heiress to her father in India. But travelling with the spoilt, precocious Anjili is no sinecure - and the task of delive...
Never Pick Up Hitch-Hikers!
Ellis Peters
A hitchhiker is caught in a murderous webHis whole life, William Banks has been trying to escape his mother, who wants desperately for him to become a lawyer. Banks wants to paint, and when he gets the opportunity to attend art school in the next cou...
A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs
Ellis Peters
Felse [4]: In a derelict seashore graveyard a mystery unfolds, a trail of violence in Maymouth's history which casts long shadows. Permission is granted to open the tombs of a loving couple, Jan and Morwenna Treverra, buried centuries ago and given t...
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