Characters in Monk's Hood

Brother Cadfael

Shrewsbury Abbey's herbalist and a former Crusader, whose knowledge of plants and human nature drives the investigation.

Also in The Sanctuary Sparrow, 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, Saint Peter's Fair, The Leper of Saint Giles, The Virgin in the Ice

Gervase Bonel

A guest at the abbey whose sudden death by poisoning sets the plot in motion.

Richildis

Bonel's widow, and a woman Cadfael once nearly married before entering the monastery.

Edwin

Richildis's son, wrongly suspected of murdering his stepfather.