Margaret Frazer, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $22.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-425-18324-3
Edgar-nominee Frazer delivers another well-wrought tale of intrigue and murder in her 11th novel (after 2001's The Squire's Tale) to feature nun and amateur sleuth Dame Frevisse. Here our heroine travels with the prioress of St. Frideswide
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Margaret Frazer, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-18649-7
While the slow unfolding of the plot and the shortage of crime solving may put off some readers, anyone who values high historical drama will feel amply rewarded by Edgar-nominee Frazer's latest Dame Frevisse mystery (The Clerk's Tale, etc.).
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Margaret Frazer, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-19401-0
Two-time Edgar nominee Frazer (The Servant's Tale
, etc.) immerses the reader into the lives and social mores of the minor English gentry—their dress, food, feelings and motivations—in her latest historical to feature Dame...
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Margaret Frazer, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-425-20018-6
Don't be discouraged by a confusing hawk-hunting scene introducing numerous characters at the start of Frazer's 14th Dame Frevisse mystery (after 2004's The Hunter's Tale
), because what follows is a smooth and absorbing saga of...
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Margaret Frazer, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $24.95 (339p) ISBN 978-0-425-20766-6
In Frazer's engrossing 15th historical (after 2005's The Widow's Tale
), Dame Frevisse leaves her rural convent for London in the summer of 1450 to procure some vestments from the titular sempster ("seamstress," as Frazer...
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Margaret Frazer, Author Jove Books $4.5 (234p) ISBN 978-0-515-11163-7
Frazer's ( The Novice's Tale ) second Sister Frevisse mystery returns to St. Frideswide's, the 15th-century English nunnery, where the priory's hosteler and amateur sleuth has three murders on her hands between Christmas and Epiphany. First is...
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Margaret Frazer, Author Berkley $6.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-425-15944-6
Frazer, whose earlier Sister Frevisse mystery, The Servant's Tale, was nominated for an Edgar, offers another in the series set in the mid-15th century at St. Frideswide's Abbey. The abbey's stern prioress, Alys, is preoccupied with finding wealthy...
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Margaret Frazer, Author Berkley Publishing Group $21.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-425-17678-8
Written with the graceful prose rhythms that have garnered her two Edgar nominations, Frazer's 10th tale of 15th-century nun Dame Frevisse (following The Reeve's Tale) transports the reader to a medieval England made vivid and a world of emotions as
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Margaret Frazer, Author Berkley Publishing Group $21.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-425-17232-2
Here's the latest excellent installment in Frazer's superbly researched medieval mystery series featuring Dame Frevisse, a nun of the order of St. Frideswide, who, along with her godly duties, relishes the occasional opportunity for amateur...
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Margaret Frazer, Author Berkley Publishing Group $24.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-425-21370-4
As the Hundred Years' War against France approaches a resolution in 1450, Frazer's clever Benedictine nun, Dame Frevisse, emerges from her Oxfordshire abbey to solve a string of politically motivated murders in this illuminating but dialogue-heavy...
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