What is sweeter than

the smell of rose,
but one not drenched in blood?

This lovely little book has dressed itself in nakedness and a few well placed balloons! ;)

And so it's ready to join the Party for the 2016 Birthday Rabck Group! :D

Here's to a new dance for a new year! So slip on your party shoes and dust off your hat... It's your day. It's your time. Give them enough to talk about for a good hundred years! >;)

Just opened my envelopes and things I got for my birthday. Thanks a lot!

Another Brother Cadfael mystery is over and this one was again a mystery that I didn't manage to figure out clearly but a few pages before the end!
Besides Brother Cadfael, the main heroine of this book is the young widow Perle. She has donated her house to the abbey with the only condition to be provided of a rose from the bush in front of it on the day of the celebration of Saint Winifred. But she is still yound and rich and strange things start happening in her life. Suitors, people interested in money and in the middle of this a young woman who doesn't want to get married and a rose bush.
I really like the way Ellis Peters writes and her books are always relaxing and interesting.

Left it in the cute bookcrossing box of this cafe / bookstore.