Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s The Servant’s Tale
After taking in a troupe of players and a wounded husband, Sister Frevisse must find out if one of the actors is a murderer in masquerade–or face a very unmerry Yuletide season.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Heron Carvic’s Miss Seeton Draws the Line
Retired art teacher Miss Seeton steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles. Armed with only her sketch pad and umbrella, she is every inch an eccentric English spinster and at every turn the most lovable and unlikely master of detection.
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s The Novice’s Tale
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library The Novice’s Taleby Margaret Frazer historical mystery in a paperback edition that was published by Berkley on November 1, 1993 and has 229 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include A Play of Knaves, A Play of Lords, A Play of Treachery, A Play of Piety, Murder Most Medieval: Noble Tales of Ignoble Demises, A Play of HeresyCoventry, Easter, plays, murder, spies, guilds, mercer, jealousy, Judas, theater, directing, acting, suicide, costumes, religious plays,, The Servant’s Tale, The Outlaw’s Tale, The Bishop’s Tale, The Murderer’s Tale, The Boy’s Tale, The Prioress’ Tale, The Maiden’s Tale, The Squire’s Tale, Clerk’s Tale, The Bastard’s Tale, The Hunter’s Tale, The Widow’s TaleFirst in the Sister Frevisse medieval mystery series revolving around a group of nuns, Dame Frevisse in particular. The series is based in St. Frideswide’s priory, a Benedictine order, in Oxfordshire. This particular story takes place in September in the Year of Our Lord’s grace 1431. My Take Okay, do not read […]
Book Review: Jennifer Chiaverini’s The Quilter’s Apprentice
The Quilter’s Apprentice teaches deep lessons about family, friendship, and sisterhood, and about creating a life as you would a quilt: with time, love, and patience, piecing the miscellaneous and mismatched scraps into a beautiful whole.
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s A Play of Heresy
Bishop Beaufort sends Joliffe to spy on the elite of Coventry while the players perform. A murder Joliffe must unravel to stop a secret sect of heretics.
Book Review: Elizabeth George’s Playing for the Ashes
I’m the one who’s answerable for my father’s death. It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn’t forgive.
Book Review: Patricia Cornwell’s Red Mist
Connections reveal that Fielding’s death and the attempt on Scarpetta are only the beginning of a terrifying terrain of conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale.
Book Review: Martin H. Greenberg and John Helfers’ Murder Most Medieval: Noble Tales of Ignoble Demises
An anthology of thirteen tales of medieval murder from low to high and with justice in between.
Book Review: Serita Stevens’ Unholy Orders
An assortment of religions through eighteen mysteries ranging from historical to contemporary, Native American to the big three of the religious world.
Book Review: Margaret Frazer’s A Play of Piety
With Bassett ill, the players must find work, and Joliffe finds it in a hospital with the ill-liked Mistress Thorncoffyn who insists someone is trying to kill her.