Cloister of Whispers cover art

Cloister of Whispers

Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, Book 6

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Cloister of Whispers

By: J. G. Lewis
Narrated by: Madeleine Brolly
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £14.99

Buy Now for £14.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Salisbury, 1227: A priest is found cruelly murdered. A local outlaw is accused, and has disappeared into the king’s forest. Ela is keen to hunt down such an ungodly killer—but she soon finds that the story is far more complicated than it seems.

The Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mystery series:
This series features a real historical figure—the formidable Ela Longespée. The young Countess of Salisbury was chosen to marry King Henry II’s illegitimate son William. After her husband’s untimely death, Ela served as high sheriff of Wiltshire, castellan of Salisbury Castle, and ultimately founder and abbess of Lacock Abbey.

Book 1: Cathedral of Bones
Book 2: Breach of Faith
Book 3: The Lost Child
Book 4: Forest of Souls
Book 5: The Bone Chess Set
Book 6: Cloister of Whispers

Coming next: Book 7: Palace of Thorns

©2021 J. G. Lewis (P)2023 J. G. Lewis Biographical Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Medieval Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Detective King

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Cathedral of Bones cover art
A Confessional Tale cover art
The Wolves of Savernake cover art
The Unquiet Bones cover art
The Bookseller's Tale cover art
The Seeker cover art
Beloved Poison cover art
A Very English Murder cover art
Legacy cover art
The Tinner's Corpse cover art
An Honourable Thief cover art
Wine of Violence cover art
Murder in the Crypt cover art
A Bespoke Murder cover art
Murder on the Lusitania cover art
A Rustle of Silk cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
I continue to live these books, Ela is such a wonderful historical character. I look forward to the next one!

Another brilliant historical story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Enjoyed your his story with its twists and turns several of which I hadn’t guessed
Enjoy the development of the main character and the links to historical fact

A good story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Easy listening, well presented, good story, already into the next book. A series that could easily transfer to the screen.

Consistent quality.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Generally, JG Lewis’ stories are simple and light. Good for quick and easy listen. This one, however, was like a mediocre episode of Robin Hood. Too many loose ends. Too many superfluous characters. Very predictable. Calling the outlaw The Fox should have been the tip off that this was going to be pedestrian.
Ela seems to waiver between being a typical noble with the rights and privileges to hold sway over the lives of serfs or being sympathetic to their plight and deferential to the outlaw. I wish the outlaw had been more like the real medieval outlaws such as the Folville Gang - inflicting mayhem and pain on the people, than of the sanitized Robin Hood character that is created here. In the former case Ela could have been seen to exact justice upon him as well as finding the murderer. I was disappointed in this one.

Like an episode of Robin Hood

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.