In THE RAVEN IN THE FOREGATE Brother Cadfael finds that a young man working in the Abbey's herb garden is suspected of murder. In THE ROSE RENT Brother Cadfael belives the motive for a callous murder is all too obvious, but he soon learns that when love and money are involved, nothing is straightforward. In THE HERMIT OF EYTON FOREST Brother Cadfael's tranquil life as a herbalist is disturbed by the arrival of a saintly hermit and the disappearance of a young boy.