Her most famous creation was a sleuthing Shrewsbury monk, Brother Cadfael, her books being turned into a television whodunit series starring Sir Derek Jacobi and also inspiring the creation of an ...

Lovesey brought the series to an end after eight books, but his hero was reborn in Granada television’s Cribb (1979-81), with several of the scripts co-written by Lovesey and his wife Jacqueline.