The play is 2.5 hours long, and comes on 2 discs in a fold out jewel case. Peters' reliable medieval performance as always-though the formula is starting to show slight signs of fatigue. The Virgin in the Ice: Chilling tale Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 October 2013 Verified Purchase First broadcast in 1993, this is a radio dramatisation of the sixth Brother Cadfael book by Ellis Peters. and makes a personal, euphoric discovery. deeply in the fortunes of the Hugonins his usual astute detective work unmasks the murderer with old friend Hugh Beringar, he also succeeds in wiping out the band of savage marauders terrorizing the area. (Their uncle, just back from a Crusade and unable, because of his allegiance to the wrong cause, to look for them in enemy territory, has sent his trusted, half-Moorish aide Olivier de Bretagne to the rescue.) Further events embroil Brother C. And he soon learns that young Sister Hilaria was giving sanctuary to sturdy 13-year-old Yves Hugonins and his headstrong older sister Ermina-orphans of an aristocratic family, refugees in the latest civil war. Back to the 12th century again with wise, worldly herbalist Brother Cadfael of Shrewsbury's Benedictine monastery-who, called to a neighboring priory to nurse a visiting monk, finds the frozen body of Sister Hilaria, raped and murdered. Booktopia has The Second Cadfael Omnibus, Saint Peters Fair, The Leper of Saint Giles, The Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters.
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