Joe is a guru who dispenses wisdom to pilgrims who travel far distances to seek his advice on life and happiness.

After refusing to baptize the illegitimate baby of a local prostitute, the new parish priest in Shrewsbury, England is found dead. With very few clues, Brother Cadfael manages to find the killer after finding the priest's skull cap under a bridge.

Flood waters make it necessary to disinter the cherished bones of Saint Winifred leaving Brother Cadfael to solve the mystery of their theft and a murder at the Abbey in Shrewsbury in 1144.

Brother Cadfael, a crime-solving monk in medieval Shrewsbury, has a disturbing encounter with his past when his investigation of wealthy Gervase Bonel's death by poisoning puts him in touch with Bonel's widow--the childhood sweetheart Cadfael left behind when he went to fight the Crusades forty years earlier.

Brother Cadfael, a crime-solving monk in medieval Shrewsbury, must work quickly to prove the innocence of young Liliwin, a wandering minstrel who seeks sanctuary in the abbey after a mob decides he must be guilty of the attack on a local goldsmith.