Cadfael

Cadfael is called upon to bury executed rebel soldiers orders. But the religious ceremony is disrupted when Cadfael counts the deceased and finds one coprse too many. No one is above suspicion as Cadfael hunts for the murderer.

When the goldsmith is robbed and killed, locals decide Liliwin must be guilty. The mob pursues the man to the abbey where he frantically seeks the sanctuary of the altar. Cadfael believes Liliwan is innocent.

Seen on the PBS Mystery! series, this haunting tales stars Sir Derek Jacobi as Brother Cadfael, the crime-solving monk of medieval Shewsbury. When a fat, old baron and a beautiful, wealthy orphan are to be wed at the abbey, all of Shrewsbury turns out to see the unlikely pair ride into town. While she throws money to lepers by the road, he strikes out at them with his whip. Cadfael investigates when the baron ominously rides off on the eve of the wedding.

When a wealthy landowner decides to disinherit his stepson, Shrewsbury Abbey stands to benefit. But before its final, he is poisoned by food prepared in the abbey. The dead man's widow is Cadfael's own childhood sweetheart.

In one of his most celebrated roles, Sir Derek Jacoby plays a shrewd monk using his knowledge of medicine and nature to clear the name of a much-loved novice, and discover the truth behind the death of a young woman.

Cadfael questions the motives of a young man who turns up at the Abbey to join as a novice. While the young man admits to the crime, Cadfael's investigation flushes out untruths and a tortured family story.

Cadfael investigates the murders of two visiting merchants who upset the festivities in Shrewsbury. Local tradesmen have motive for murder, but Cadfael suspects something more than just greed and jealousy at play.

When a young monk claims to see visions of St. Winifred, Cadfael and a party from Shrewsbury Abbey trek to Wales to excavate her holy relics and are met with much hostility. When the main opponent to the monks' efforts is murdered, not even the holy men -- who are forbidden to leave with the relics until Cadfael identifies the killer -- are exempt from suspicion.

Seen on the PBS Mystery! series, this riveting tale stars Sir Derek Jacobi as Brother Cadfael, the intuitive crime-solving monk of medieval Shrewsbury. Father Ailnoth, the new parish priest, earns the scorn of all his parishioners. After refusing to baptize the illegitimate baby of a local woman, the priest is found dead in the river. With plenty of suspects but a shortage of clues, Cadfael confounds even his good friend Beringar, the Under Sheriff, in revealing just how the priest lost his life.

A beautiful and wealthy young widow donates the house she shared with her beloved husband to Shrewsbury Abbey, asking only for the annual rent of one white rose from its garden. Among her many admirers is the young monk charged with delivering the first rose. When the monk is found bludgeoned to death and the widow disappears, Cadfael investigates.

Amid the throng of hopeful pilgrims flocking to Shrewsbury Abbey on "Cripple's Day", a body is found in a leather sack. Brother Cadfael boils the body down to bones searching for clues to the victim's fate.

After the local potter's field is given to the abbey, a plowman unearths a skeleton with long thick women's tresses unceremoniously buried there.

Brothers from Ramsey come to Shrewsbury looking for money to rebuild their monastery, which has been ransacked by rebel soldiers. They claim that a loan of Saint Winifred's Holy Relics, which are housed at Shrewsbury, would be suitable generosity.