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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Servant's Taledi Margaret Frazer
2021 Christmas Gifts (42) Sto caricando le informazioni...
Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A little gruesome and I didn't see it coming. Nonetheless, I'm on to #3 because I like the world she has created here. ( ) The careful attention to detail and wintery atmosphere can’t make up for a rather pedestrian plot. A drunken villein is seemingly on his way back to health as the nuns of St. Fridesweid tend to his needs. Somehow, though, he dies peacefully during the night. There are plenty of suspects, each with a grudge against the surly peasant. Dame Frevisse again takes matters into her capable hands to protect the innocent and find the guilty. But then another murder occurs... Just average. Synopsis: It is a very cold Christmas with little food and the nuns of St. Frideswide have the rheum. Into their midst descends a group of players carrying an injured man from the village. His death, that of his son, and of a nun are thought at first to be from misadventure or illness, but they are in fact murders. Dame Frevisse must discover the murderer and clear those who are falsely accused. Review: Although it takes many chapters for the first murder to occur, the entire book is really fun to read. Descriptions of the 1400s are chillingly accurate, as area accounts of the duties of nuns and their sometimes decidedly odd personalities. The plot is nicely twisted with a rather surprising ending. Some of the earlier Frevisse novels show very clearly her internal struggles with adapting to life as a nun, and this one does an excellent job. It also lays some groundwork for relationships that further develop as the series continues. Most notably it introduces Joliffe, who now has his own series. Well paced, the story has an unusual twist (although it does give ample clues). As usual great care is given to the historical accuracy. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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 cannot turn away travellers, even the players knocking at the nunnery door. But along with the motley troupe comes the grievously wounded husband of the cloister's scullery maid, Meg. They swear they found the drunken wastrel in a ditch, but the tale sounds like another song and dance. Especially when two dead bodies are waiting in the wings... Now Sister Frevisse must find out if one of the actors is a murderer in masquerade--or face a very unmerry Yuletide season. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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