The Servant's Tale (Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries)
Publisher: Berkley
Published: November 1, 1993
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780425143896
First sentence: THE HOUSE SAT on the muddy track beyond the village church, drawn back with its two neighbors from Prior Byfield's single broad street.
Description: 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.
Sister Frevisse - Book 02
Table of contents: title: It's not a very merry Christmas for the sisters of St. Frideswide when they welcome a troupe of actors in from the cold . . . and open the nunnery door to murder.; title: Sister Frevisse - Book 02