whitneymcn ,
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@bookstodon I've burned through all of the Brother Cadfael books in the past couple of months, and I have a question: I've Googled this a bunch, but I still can't find anybody online who is connecting the dots to prove that Cadfael himself was the reason that there were so many murders in a relatively few years, in this tiny 12th century English town.

That kind of analysis HAS to be a thing, doesn't it?

BunRab ,
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@whitneymcn @bookstodon
Sister Frevisse a couple centuries later, half a dozen in the 16th c...

RHW ,
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@BunRab @whitneymcn @bookstodon
You wouldn't want to live around Midsomer, with the Barnaby cousins and their sergeants, would you?
They excel in multiple sadistic and bloodthirsty murders with delightful surroundings and immaculate gardens.
But I am compelled to watch because I miss England's wonderful summer hedgerows...😉😊

Lassielmr ,
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@RHW @BunRab @whitneymcn @bookstodon or Sister Boniface in the fictional town of Great Slaughter in the Cotswolds and Farher Brown in the fictional Cotswold village of Kembleford. Throw in lashings and lashings of ginger beer and you get the picture.

BunRab ,
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@Lassielmr @RHW @whitneymcn @bookstodon
I would be willing to die by ginger beer if it were dry, not disgustingly sweet, ginger beer

AlliFlowers ,
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@RHW All the people who live in Midsomer are frightful! They are busybodies and snobs. I wouldn’t want to live there even with a perfect hedgerow. @BunRab @whitneymcn @bookstodon

RHW ,
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@AlliFlowers @BunRab @whitneymcn @bookstodon
😃😃They do seem pretty ghastly, but make for more fun. Suspect in real life only wealthy live there nowadays. But I still love looking at the old mansions, quaint cottages and scenery.
It is nostalgia for me, English countryside was a joy.

AlliFlowers ,
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@RHW Agreed. My nanny had a garden where she grew things like cauliflower and rhubarb. Can’t grow rhubarb here, and most of the time you can only find it frozen. @BunRab @whitneymcn @bookstodon

penpencilbrush ,
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@whitneymcn @bookstodon Cadfael, Miss Marple, it's been going on for years in these tiny English towns. Mighty suspicious.

lunalein ,
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@bookstodon @whitneymcn are you telling me he’s an ancient ancestor of Jessica Fletcher?

whitneymcn OP ,
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@lunalein @bookstodon Exactly so.

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