A MAN HATED BY HIS WIFE, HIS CITY... AND HIS KILLERIn Margaret Frazer's latest medieval mystery, the "pious and perceptive" (New York Times) Dame Frevisse accompanies her prioress on a visit of mercy to anunnery. 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: MasterMontfort was not particularly liked by anyone in the town of Goring.Even his own wife and clerk despised him. And as royal escheator he wastrying to settle a heated dispute between a wealthy woman and hersupposed nephew.Now Dame Frevisse must step in and untangle the fortunes and felonies in a rivalry of wealth, family, and politics. But the true challenge willbe putting aside her own feelings and serving justice for the murder ofan unjust man..."The devout yet human Dame Frevisse is back... another well-wroughttale of intrigue and murder. History aficionados will delight and fanswill rejoice that the devout yet human Dame Frevisse is back...." -Publishers Weekly "A wonderful series. Frevisse, with her common sense and humor andtang of salt, is one of my favorite sleuths." (Sharon Kay Penman, author of The Queen's Man)"Meticulous detail that speaks of trustworthy scholarship and a sympathetic imagination." (The New York Times)"Full of the richness of the fifteenth century...Margaret Frazer's tales are charmingly and intelligentlycontrived." (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
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