The Potter's Field - Ellis Peters

\n \nThe medieval monk digs for clues when a body is unearthed by a plow: His detecting talents are as dazzling as ever (Publishers Weekly).\n \n \n\n \nWhen a newly plowed field recently given to the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul yields the body of a young woman, Brother Cadfael is quickly thrown into a delicate situation. The field was once owned by a local potter named Ruald, who had abandoned his beautiful wife, Generys, to take monastic vows.\n \n \n\n \nGenerys was said to have gone away with a lover, but now it seems as if she had been murdered. With the arrival at the abbey of young Sulien Blount, a novice fleeing homeward from the civil war raging in East Anglia, the mysteries surrounding the corpse start to multiply. \n