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Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 11
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English
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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 cloister garden. Dead. Less surprising, to Dame Frevisse, was the identity of the victim. Master Montfort was not particularly liked by anyone in the town of Goring—even his own wife and clerk. As royal escheator, he was trying to settle a heated inheritance dispute between a wealthy woman and her supposed nephew.
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Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 17
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
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 the nunnery with a man. Now her lover is dead and she has come back, bringing her illegitimate son with her. She claims she is penitent, that she wants only to redeem her sin and find safe haven for the child. Neither she nor her son can be turned away,...
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Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 15
Language
English
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Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide's nunnery, travels to London in the summer of 1450 to purchase funeral vestments for the Duke of Suffolk, and becomes caught up in a web of intrigue and murder centered around the widowed seamstress Anne Blakhall and her lover, Daved Weir, a merchant hiding the fact that he is a Jew.
Author
Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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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 daughters. Kidnapped, defamed, and imprisoned in a nunnery, she must find a way to save herself before she can save her children.
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Series
Sister Frevisse mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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In the summer of 1448, Dame Frevisse accompanies one of her students, Ursula, home to attend the funeral of her murdered father, Sir Ralph Woderove, a man so greedy and selfish that not even his family mourns him, but when more people start dying, Dame Frevisse realizes she must find a killer.
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