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Title: The Leper of Saint Giles
Subtitle: The Fifth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
Author: Ellis Peters
Narrator: Joanna Ward
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-22-01
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 149 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Setting out for the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury, Brother Cadfael has more pressing matters on his mind than the grand wedding coming to his abbey. Yet as fate would have it, Cadfael arrives at Saint Giles just as the nuptial party passes the colony's gates. He sees the fragile bride looking like a prisoner between her two stern guardians and the bridegroom, an arrogant, fleshy aristocrat old enough to be her grandfather. And he quickly discerns this union may be more damned than blessed. Indeed, a savage murder will interrupt the May-December marriage and leave Brother Cadfael with a dark, terrible mystery to solve. For the key to the killing - and a secret - are hid among the lepers of Saint Giles. Now Brother Cadfael's skills must ferret out a sickness, not of the body, but of a twisted soul - in the fifth Brother Cadfael Chronicle, a work that displays Ellis Peters' special genius at her best.
©1981 by Ellis Peters; (P)1998 by Blackstone Audiobooks
Critic Reviews:
"Each addition to the series is a joy. Long may the Chronicles continue." (USA Today)
Members Reviews:
The Leper of Saint Giles
Good. Moderately enteraining.
Another great listen!
Any additional comments?
I have been slowly going through the BC series, and have enjoyed them all thus far. But I want to comment specifically on the reader, Joanna Ward. There have been some comments on this, and other BC books, about her being a bad choice. I have to strongly disagree. Of the readers I have heard so far, she is clearly the top one. Her ability to add Welsh inflections, where needed, are terrific, and her male/female character voices are as good as anybody else's given that any reader, male or female, is going to be challenged to sound authentic doing the "other sex".
I have just started "Virgin in the Ice", and the reader (Vanessa Benjamin, I believe) is already bothering me immensely.
I wish that Joanna Ward had read them all.
Another well written Brother Cadfael mystery
What made the experience of listening to The Leper of Saint Giles the most enjoyable?
Well written story; well told
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
While the plot is good; the enjoyment for me is in the telling.
What does Joanna Ward bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?
Like many peiople I
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes
Any additional comments?
The whole series gives a wonderful picture of 14th century England. It is also provides a peep into customs, religion and the basics of forensics and criminal psychology. Reading in chronological order provides a good insight into a civil war not often written about.
Why was this narrator chosen?
I have read all of the Brother Cadfael books in French as well as English, and am a solid fan of this author and series.
While I enjoyed the accent of this narrator, however, and her skill, her efforts to convey male voices failed in my view (as a function of her voice capabilities), with the unfortunate and unintended consequence of making all of these characters (and almost all characters are male of course) sound pompous and self-important. I have much preferred male narrators for this series.
No mystery at all
Well-narrated, but this murder was no mystery at all.