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(0)Margaret Frazer
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
THE PLAY'S THE THING, TO CATCH THE CONSCIENCE OF A KILLER . . .
The Christmas season brings strange guests to the medieval nunnery of St. Frideswide's when a troupe of penniless players comes knocking at the gate. They bear with them the badly mangled body of a villager, swearing they found the drunken fool lying in a ditch. But Meg, the victim's wife and a scullery maid of the cloister, thinks there are far fouler deeds afoot.
As the players rehearse...
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1995, c1994
Language
English
Description
ACT OF MERCY, ACT OF MURDERLeaving the safety of her nunnery walls behind, Dame Frevisse is drawn into an unholy web of treachery and deceit. Waylaid on the King's Highway by a band of outlaws, Frevisse is shocked to discover that their leader is her long-lost cousin Nicholas. When he pleads with her to help him obtain a pardon for his crimes, she finds herself trapped between the harsh edicts of the law and the mercy of her vows.But even as she struggles...
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1993, c1992
Language
English
Description
UNHOLY PASSIONS AND DEMONIC DEATHS . . .
In the fair autumn of Our Lord's grace 1431, the nuns of England's St. Frideswide's prepare for the simply ceremonies in which the saintly novice Thomasine will take her holy vows. But their quiet lives of beauty and prayer are thrown into chaos by the merciless arrival of Lady Ermentrude Fenner and her retinue of lusty men, sinful women, and baying hounds. The hard-drinking dowager even keeps a pet monkey...
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
"MAY GOD STRIKE ME DOWN WITHIN THE HOUR!"To the guests at the mourning feast for Thomas Chaucer, the last words of Sir Clement Sharpe had been enough to damn him in the eyes of God. Detested by all who knew him, his final blasphemy had turned even God's anger against him and his death would be a lesson well-remembered. None among them would ever forget the sight of God striking down a sinning man, and each would keep in their heart the need to honor...
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN..."Sanctuary! In God's name you must give it!"A dark lady rides back into the life of Dame Frevisse, bearing with her two small boys haunted by the touch of death and scandal. Nine men lie dead on the road behind them, victims of the grim fate which relentlessly pursues them. Some seek to turn them away, but when they request sanctuary Frevisse is bound by her holy oaths to grant it.But in welcoming them within the walls...
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A WEB OF LIES, INTRIGUE... AND ROMANCEIt is an hour of desperate need for St. Frideswide's. Thrust into financial ruin by the incompetence and corruption of their former prioress, the nuns have become trapped under the thumb of Abbott Gilberd as he pries into every possible corner of the priory's life.In an effort to escape their desperate straits, Dame Frevisse is forced to journey to London in order to seek both a new prioress and financial aid...
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
DARK CORRUPTION AND THE PENITENCE OF DEATH...Under the harsh hand of its newly elected prioress, St. Frideswide's has become a place of deadly sin. The corruption has grown subtly and slowly, but it has found fertile soil in the rage and greed of Domina Alys, who has turned the priory into a boarding house for her relatives, the Godfreys. Dame Frevisse is horrified to discover that the modest stores of the priory – desperately needed if the nuns...
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
THROUGH A MURDERER'S EYES...Caught under the tyrannical thumb of her new prioress, Dame Frevisse finds welcome relief in leaving St. Frideswide nunnery on pilgrimage. But the road brings with it unwelcome company: The wealthy Lionel Knyvet has been possessed by a foul demon. Seeking relief from the horrific terrors visited upon his body each fortnight, Lionel has dragged his entire household on an endless pilgrimage across the breadth and length of...
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
13) The clerk's tale
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
18) A play of knaves
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1435, Joliffe and his acting troupe arrive in the village of Ashewell to investigate a rivalry between the town's three wealthy families that takes a deadly turn before the final act