Description

Pilgrims are collecting from far and wide to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the translation of Saint Winifred's bones for the Benedictine Abbey at Shrewsbury. In remote Winchester, a soldier, promoter of the Empress Maud, hasbeen killed - not a meeting worth focusing on to those seeking remarkable remedies in the saint's shrine evidently. But one of the throng some unusual clients certainly start to problem Brother Cadfael - and whilst the story unfolds it becomes apparent than it first appeared that the homicide is just a not as distant event.