- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd (Dec 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 070907509X
- ISBN-13: 978-0709075097
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,407,691 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It is the year 1431, and the nuns of St. Frideswide live quiet lives. But with the unwelcome visit of the hard- drinking, blaspheming Lady Ermentrude their lives are suddenly not so quiet. But just as suddenly the Lady is found dead. Sleuth Sister Frevisse gets on the case a detects a cleaver web spun to entangle the innocent.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good plot twists,
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This review is from: The Novice's Tale (Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)
This was the first Sister Frevisse book I've read, and I can't wait to read more. The characters are vivid, our sleuth multi-dimensional, and the historical details seem well researched (although I'm no medievalist). This book has a great little twist at the end, and will keep you guessing!
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Novice's Tale a suspenceful mystery with a twist.,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Novice's Tale (Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)
The Novice's Tale, a book by Margaret Frazer is a suspensful tale interlaced with deception, lurid accounts, and quite frankly strange surprises. Of all places the murder mystery takes place in the quiet walls of a fifteenth century convent, run by a motley bunch of inquisitive nuns who don't quite conform to the sterotypes of the'straitlaced' sister. The narrator and main character is Thomasaine, who is a novice or a so-called 'student nun', hence the title the Novice's Tale.' She had a predilection to becoming a nun, because she was attracted to the profession's quiet, and peacful atmosphere. Sadly, Thomasaine recieved more than she bargained for. Through the innocent perception of Thomasaine the story provides the reader with a very origional twist to the grisly murder mystery. The irony in this situation, is that the credulous Thomasaine believes everything in the convent is and will be innocent, and then in her first begining weeks, as a novice she is forced to witness unholy and most certainly uninnocent acts of murder. The good thing that amounts from the grusome murder or murders, is that, it forced Thomasaine to break out of her anti-society shell. I must say the murder or murders that took place were pretty crazy. Well, crazy enough to push the extremely reserved Thomasaine back into society. In the Novice's Tale any reader will be able enjoy suspence, action, nuns in action, humor , and sentimental value. The Novice's Tale is a easy and fun book to read wether your an addicted book junkie or just a picture browser.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The First Book in the Sister Frevisse Series,
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This review is from: The Novice's Tale (Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)
This is only the second book that I have read by Margaret Frazer but I was so impressed by the attention to historical detail that I will now be on the lookout for any others that I can lay my hands on. It is very refreshing at a time when a lot of the historical novels being churned out at the moment are mediocre in the extreme to find an author who loves her subject and is prepared to take the time to research it. Many authors think that the time taken to research their subject matter is better employed churning out another book. Some reader's may say that there is too much historical detail but I thought that it added more credence to the story.
The novel takes place in 1431 and has as the leading character Sister Frevisse who is soon called to hone her skills as a solver of mysteries. The arrivalo of the lusty blaspheming dowager lady Ermentrude is a shock to the system of most of the inhabitants of St. Frideswide convent, but before she can get what she came to the convent to retrieve, her niece, the novice Thomasine, the calm and tranquility of the convent is even more disrupted when she is found murdered.
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