Visiting Minister Lovell while on pilgrimage from St. Frideswide, Sister Frevisse suspects that a mentally ill guest, who is prone to violent fits, has been framed for the murder of an innocent man.
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'Engrossing' - Red Roses for Authors 'History fans will relish every minute' - Publisher's Weekly 'Appealing characters and crisp writing' - Los Angeles Times
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Margaret Frazer lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Original Paperback for The Prioress' Tale and she has also written The Reeve's Tale, The Outlaw's Tale and The Maiden's Tale for Robert Hale.
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Margaret Frazer is a full-time writer. She has twice been a finalist for the Edgar(r) in the paperback original category. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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I Think the best so far in this series!,
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This is probably the best in the Sister Frevisse series so far, even though we know who the murderer is from the beginning. What we discover as we read is a medieval mystery that has a great sense of time and place. We see the whole "castle keep life" as they lived it. We also see the superstition and belief in the supernatural that was so much a part of this day and age. It must have been terrible for anyone that suffered from the "falling sickness" back then since people were so afraid that that person was possessed by demons.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Fascinating glimpse of medieval life and murderer's mind,
By LAR (New Haven, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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Frazer presents not a mystery but a portrait of a sociopathic killer. Some of the chapters are told from the murderer's point of view, others from the point of view of Sister Frevisse who begins to suspect the obvious facts of the case as the murderer has meant them to be seen. Dame Frevisse and Dame Clair, unable to stand the autocratic rule of their new prioress Dame Alys, confess to their sins of pride and disobedience and are sent on pilgrimage to expiate and take a break from dealing with her in person. Stopping first at Minster Lovell to present the convent's side of a dispute over the repair of a well granted to the nuns by Lovell, they are there when a manservant is found murdered after attending to his master during an epileptic fit. While everyone assumes that the demon they believe causes the fits led to the murder, Sister Frevisse pieces together inconsistencies of the crime scene with her observations of both the manservant and the family of his master. But is her suspicion of the epileptic's cousin due to her reading of the situation or to her dislike of the man? And how does that relate to problems with Dame Alys? The author presents a fifteenth century community that comes sympathetically alive to the modern reader, with both accurate period detail and compelling characterization. I don't know why this one is so expensive compared to others in the series, but it is worth reading.
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An old but familiar story,
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I enjoyed this Margaret Frazer mystery... the only thing is that unusually the murderer is revealed early on.... and you are left wondering if he really gets caugh the whole book. A different twist.
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