The Servant's Tale

Name: The Servant's Tale
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Margaret Frazer
ISBN: 9781541440159

Author: Margaret Frazer

Series: Dame Frevisse Mystery #2

Narrator: Susan Duerden

Unabridged: 8 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/28/2020

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical Fiction, Cozy

Synopsis

THE PLAY'S THE THING, TO CATCH THE CONSCIENCE OF A KILLER . . .

The Christmas season brings strange guests to the medieval nunnery of St. Frideswide's when a troupe of penniless players comes knocking at the gate. They bear with them the badly mangled body of a villager, swearing they found the drunken fool lying in a ditch. But Meg, the victim's wife and a scullery maid of the cloister, thinks there are far fouler deeds afoot.

As the players rehearse for the nativity, ancient scandals lick at their heels and dark desperation haunts Meg's steps as she finds cruel feudal laws threatening to strip away the lands that would support both her and her sons in the wake of her husband's death.

Dame Frevisse must thrust herself between these violent feuds, awakening dreams of her youth that she had believed long buried. Her very faith may be threatened, but Frevisse knows she must unravel a path to true salvation . . . before false raptures of lust bring ruination upon them all.

About Margaret Frazer

Margaret Frazer was a finalist for an Edgar Award for Best Original Paperback for both The Servant's Tale and The Prioress's Tale. The Sister Frevisse series includes The Novice's Tale, The Servant's Tale, The Outlaw's Tale, The Bishop's Tale, The Boy's Tale, The Murderer's Tale, The Prioress's Tale, The Maiden's Tale, The Reeve's Tale, and The Squire's Tale. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Reviews

Goodreads review by C. (Comment, never msg).

After piecing this collection together, I started it exactly three years ago. It was a gradual acclimatization. Historical fiction is not my milieu but I was impressed. This is a 1434 timeline. This order of St. Frideswide nuns in England, far from frail, are the relatives of warriors. The protagoni......more

Goodreads review by Amanda

Once again the characters are interesting and clearly made. The players were a good addition to the seasons happenings, discovering the husband of Meg in a ditch, crushed under the cart he was bringing back to his neighbour, and bringing him to the nunnery for help. Unfortunately, I found that the m......more

Goodreads review by Cas

When I initially read that there was infact a whole series of murder mysteries surrounding the character Dame Frevisse and, presumably, the St. Friedeswide abbey, I was skeptical whether the author could keep it intriguing and, for lack of a better word, meaningful. After all, an unending series of......more

Goodreads review by Pauline

It’s Christmastide, 1434, in Prior Byfield’s but for Meg it is bleak midwinter. Her husband Barnaby is a drunkard. Her family is in dire straits after her husband Barnaby, a drunkard, sells off their cow and ox when drunk. Without the ox he could no longer be a member of the village plow team which,......more