The Servant's Tale (A Dame Frevisse Mystery)

by Margaret Frazer

Book Overview

Sister Frevisse is sinfully good at discerning the mysteries of the soul--and solving the crimes of the human heart in this charming series. It's Christmastime, and the sisters of St. Frideswide... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425143899
• Release Date: November 1993
• Publisher: Berkley
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.6" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

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The Servant's Tale takes a good 60 pages to grab you, but once the second murder has happened, you will not set the book down until you are done. Sweet Sister Frevisse almost overlooks the culprit by keeping such an open mind even after exposing adultery by one of the St. Frideswide's servants.

Christmas at St. Frideswide.

It's a very cold Yuletide at St. Frideswide in the 1433. All the sisters are either sick or recovering from colds. Sister Frevisse is also not feeling herself, but she is thrown into another murder investigation when a village lad is found dead. Before they even get anywhere with that, another murder takes place. Who is killing people in what is supposed to be a religious and joyous season? Sister Frevisse must find out. Can she solve it before an even more grotesque murder happens? This is a good book. Ms. Frazer must use extensive research since her period detail and characterization is very good. Even so, it is a very dark and disturbing tale.

A bleak cold winter

We visit the fifteenth century priory of St. Fridewides in a bleak cold winter in Margaret Frazer's book the Servant's Tale. all the sisters have caught the rheum (or flu) and a group of players(actors)bring in a badly injured man. His wife, Meg is a servant to the priory and badly wants a better life for herself and her children. This seems unlikely to happen with a maimed husband who was somewhat shiftless in the first place and given to drink.Before long we have a murder and the players are the chief suspects. Our medieval sleuth Sister Frevisse, wants to disprove this, because of her beginning friendship with this group of people.I was not as fond of this book as I was with the others in the Sister Frevisse series. Frazer does her usual superb research and brings the fifteenth century to life. Her characters are interesting and you want to find out more about them. This novel is very bleak and sad. I knew who was the villain immediately and hoped I was somehow wrong.