Saint Peter's Fair — Ellis Peters

St. Peter's Fair is a grand, festive event, attracting merchants from miles around--each one eager to sell luxurious clothing, fine wines, or treasures of silver and gold.

But on the eve of the Fair one such merchant, Thomas of Bristol, is found with a slender dagger piercing his heart--murdered and abandoned in the river Severn.

Brother Cadfael, a brave monk with an appetite for mystery, offers to help the merchant's lovely niece Emma. But while he is searching for the killer, Thomas of Bristol's booth is ransacked and two more men are murdered. Cadfael realizes that no one, Emma least of all, is safe....