The medieval monk digs for clues when a body is unearthed by a plow:
"His detecting talents are as dazzling as ever" (Publishers Weekly).
When 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.
Generys 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.