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[TRIVIA] Titles of Mysteries that Margaret reads...

[Bobman]

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[Anton P. Nym]

I can help with the Cadfael series; I have a little less than half of them on my bookshelf. They're quite good.

Brother Cadfael is a monk in the Bennedictine abbey of Shrewsbury in 12c England, during the civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud. He started out as a Welsh tradesman but became a sailor and soldier in the Crusades. He met a Saracen woman in Jerusalem, Miriam, and, uh, "took up" with her for a while. Eventually he returned to England with his master, and he retired to the abbey as a monk.

Cadfael is the abbey's herbalist and gardener, and often acts as apothecary as well. It is in the latter capacity that he gets involved in the mysteries... he's often present after sickness or injury. He has a keen eye for detail, an excellent understanding of human behaviour, and the besetting sin of insatiable curiousity. I'll stick in a spoiler for Virgin in the Ice here: Miriam bore him a son who eventually returns to England, and the two unknowingly meet in that novel... but Cadfael figures it out in the very last chapter, after he has left.

I don't know if any of this is going to help, and I definitely don't know how this relates to the Precious Ramostwe books, but there it is.

-- Steve greatly appreciated the pains that Peters took to keep the historical accuracy as close as she did.