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(0)Margaret Frazer
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ACT OF MERCY, ACT OF MURDER
Leaving 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...
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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...
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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...
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Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 12
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
12) The widow's tale
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Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
13) A play of piety
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Pub. Date
2010.
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First edition.
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English
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While his troupe leader recovers from a fall, 15th century actor Joliffe takes a temporary job in a hospital and investigates a series of mysterious patient deaths that may have been failed attempts on the life a cantankerous, hypochondriac widow.
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