Ellis Peters (aka Edith Mary Pargeter) was born in Horsehay, Shropshire, September 28, 1913. She is probably best known for her creation Brother Cadfael, a monk living in 12th century England. The backdrop of her stories is the civil war that raged between King Stephen and his cousin Empress Maud for the crown of England. Cadfael had been a soldier before becoming a monk at St. Peter's and St. Paul's in Shrewsbury.
He works as an herbalist for the monastery so he is called upon to leave its confines to visit the village if someone becomes ill or wounded. This gives him the chance to interact with the secular world and its share of murder and death.
Her first Brother Cadfael novel is "A Morbid Taste for Bones" was published in 1977 and is tied at #42 of the Top 100 Crime Novels of all Time, with "The Leper of St. Giles", also by Ellis Peters.
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