Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The clerk's tale The clerk's tale Margaret Frazer Dame Frevisse accompanies her prioress on a visit of mercy to a nunnery. St. Mary's nunnery is a place of prayer and healing for women - so it is surprising to see a man sprawled out in the cloist… OL15800462W
The maiden's tale The maiden's tale Margaret Frazer It 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 Gi… OL15958182W
The outlaw's tale The outlaw's tale Margaret Frazer 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 … OL473662W
The Servant's Tale (Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries) The Servant's Tale (Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries) Margaret Frazer 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 v… OL473672W
The Apostate's Tale The Apostate's Tale Margaret Frazer As the nuns of St. Frideswide's priory prepare for the welcome end of Lent, their peaceful expectations are overset by the sudden return of long-vanished Sister Cecely. Nine years ago she fled from t… OL473677W
The widow's tale The widow's tale Margaret Frazer Recently widowed and still grieving, Cristiana Helyngton finds her life wrenched apart by her late husband's greedy and ambitious relatives, who are determined to have control of her lands and her da… OL473679W