![]() ![]() While searching, Cadfael finds a young girl frozen in a stream. A Brother of the church, badly wounded, may hold the clue to their whereabouts, but he cannot remember anything. Rumor has them attempting to reach Shrewsbury but they’ve not arrived. ![]() With soldiers away defending King Stephen’s claim to the throne, there is little the locals can do in defense of their property or lives.Ĭadfael goes in search of a party of nuns and two older children who have gone missing while trying to escape from a city to the south. Families are murdered, livestock taken or butchered on the spot. Marauding bandits have been making it even harder for those who hold cotsteads away from the towns. Still, I spent some time reading entries in Robin Whiteman’s The Cadfael Companion to refresh my memory on the historical background since I didn’t recall much about historical events in 1139 when Stephen and Maud were fighting for the crown. I’ve read many of these Cadfael mysteries, so I’m fairly familiar with the characters, location, historical period. The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters, © 1982, Fawcett Crest paperback 1984, ![]() This is the 231st in my series of forgotten or seldom read books ![]()
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