Judith L. (JML) - , reviewed on 1/24/2006 + 153 more book reviews

From the back cover: The younger son of a prominent family, Meriet Aspley arrives at the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, determined to become a monk. Dark, solitary, and just nineteen, he seems sincere in his quest for the ecclesiastical life--until his screaming nightmares shatter the peace of the monastery.

Dubbed the devil's novice and shunned by the other brothers, young Aspley attracts the notice and concern of kind Brother Cadfael. Then the dead body of a young priest last seen at the Aspley estate appears, and suddenly Meriet Aspley may be implicated in a murder.

So Cadfael, that excellent sleuth, sets out to untangle a knot of truly twisted threads that lead to a gala wedding held in the Abbey's own halls--where the conclusion to this haunting mystery is finally and fatefully revealed.

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