The Leper of Saint Giles is book five in Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael mystery series. While taking various medicines out to the Saint Giles leper colony, Brother Cadfael happens upon both parts of a wedding party: the groom, old and surly, and the bride, forlorn and hemmed in by her guardians. Knowing the girl to be the granddaughter of an honorable knight that Cadfael was glad to serve under during the fall of Jerusalem, he sets his abbot to see if the girl is marrying of her own free will. When she lies to the abbot trying to protect the squire that she loves from charges of theft, Cadfael can think of no way to stop the wedding. Luckily, the groom turns up murdered so the faithful monk sets out to prove the innocence of squire.
Delightful and intriguing as always. 4 stars.
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