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A Rare Benedictine, subtitled The Advent of Brother Cadfael, is a collection of three short stories, including a short intro by the author, that serve as a sort of prequel to the excellent Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters. It has dropped to $1.99 today at Kindle and Kobo US (couponable/VIPable).

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Rare-Benedict...dp/B00LUZNZIS/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-rare-benedictine

Spoiler:

Three vintage tales reveal how a former crusader became literature’s greatest mystery-solving monk

“Brother Cadfael sprang to life suddenly and unexpectedly when he was already approaching sixty, mature, experienced, fully armed and seventeen years tonsured.” So writes Ellis Peters in her introduction to A Rare Benedictine—three vintage tales of intrigue and treachery featuring the monastic sleuth who has become the best-loved ecclesiastical detective since Father Brown.

Although Cadfael has appeared in twenty novel-length chronicles, the story of his entry into the monastery at Shrewsbury has been known hitherto only to a few readers. Now his myriad fans can discover the chain of events that led him into the Benedictine Order.