Characters in Dead Man's Ransom

Brother Cadfael

Herbalist monk and amateur investigator at Shrewsbury Abbey, called on to find the sheriff's true killer.

Also in A Light on the Road to Woodstock, The Price of Light, Eyewitness, A rare Benedictine: the adventure of Brother Cadfael, A Morbid Taste for Bones, One Corpse Too Many, Monk's Hood, Saint Peter's Fair, The Leper of Saint Giles, The Virgin in the Ice

Elis

Young Welshman held hostage and the chief suspect in the sheriff's murder after falling for his daughter.