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 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, The Sanctuary Sparrow, The Devil's Novice, The Pilgrim of Hate, An Excellent Mystery

Elis

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