<p><I>Christmas AD 1141.</i> </p><P>Abbot Radulfus returns from London bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross (known as the Foregate) a man of presence scholarship and discipline but neither humility nor the common touch. When he is found drowned in the mill-pond suspicion is cast in many directions not least towards a young man who came in the priest’s train sent to work in Brother Cadfael’s garden. For he has little obvious priestly calling. Indeed he soon attracts the friendship of a girl both beautiful and formidable.</p> <p>To Brother Cadfael is left the familiar task of sorting the complicated strands that define guilt and innocence.</p><P>A Blackstone Audio production.</p>