Download or read book The Holy Thief written by Ellis Peters and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Brother Cadfael: Former soldier. Benedictine monk. Amateur sleuth. The Cadfael Chronicles, by Diamond Dagger winner Ellis Peters, follow the mediaeval mysteries of one of classic crime's most unique detectives. In early 1145, subsiding flood waters reveal a robbery has been committed on church grounds, and Brother Cadfael thinks the robbery is connected to a murder.