Monk’s Hood (The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael E-book 3)

Gervase Bonel is a visitor of Shrewsbury Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul when he instantly takes sick. Fortunately, the abbey boasts the providers of the intelligent and kindly Brother Cadfael, a talented herbalist. Cadfael hurries to the person’s bedside, solely to be confronted with two surprises: In Grasp Bonel’s spouse, the great monk acknowledges Richildis, whom he cherished earlier than he took his vows—and Grasp Bonel has been fatally poisoned by monk’s-hood oil from Cadfael’s shops.

The sheriff is satisfied that the assassin is Richildis’s son, Edwin, who hated his stepfather. However Cadfael, guided partly by his concern for a lady to whom he was as soon as betrothed, is definite of her son’s innocence. Utilizing his information of each herbs and the human coronary heart, Cadfael deciphers a lethal recipe for homicide.