Ellis Peters: The Dead Man's Ransom |
From the Publisher: By good fortune, it seems, the prisoner can be exchanged as Sheriff Prestcote's ransom. What none expects is that good-natured Elis will be struck down -- by cupid's arrow. The sheriff's own daughter holds him in thrall, and she, too, is blind with passion. Now regaining her father means losing her lover. But then the sheriff, ailing and frail, is brought to the abbey's infirmary -- and murdered there. Suspicion falls on the prisoner, who has only his Welsh honor to gain Brother Cadfael's help. And Cadfael gives it, not knowing the truth will be a trial for his own soul... Ellis Peters: The Dead Man's Ransom. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446405167 (March, 1997), 288 p., $6.99.
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