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Title: Gentle Justice
Review: This Twelfth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael has all the elements we have come to expect in this series: a wanted man traveling under an assumed name; a beautiful young woman whose family has been destroyed by the continuing civil war; a body in the mill pond; and at least half a dozen people with motive and opportunity for murder. Once again it is Brother Cadfael's compassionate understanding of human nature that leads to explanation, resolution and, for some of the characters, new hope. Ellis Peters (Edith Parteger) administers a bit of gentle-never malicious-justice even to the insufferable Brother Jerome, in a delightful coincidence that ends the story.
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