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The village of Prior Byfield is blighted with famine, devastated by plague, and cursed with ill-fortune. Simon Perryn, the poor reeve of the village, is driven to distraction by the petty rivalries and hopeless troubles of his neighbors. His adulterous sister and her dolt of a husband have entangled their affairs with Gilbey Dunn, the richest man of the village, and Elena, the beautiful and seductive woman that he calls his wife. With wealth on the line and lives at the stake, old quarrels and ancient angers are boiling over into the once-quiet streets of the village. That’s when things get even worse for Simon: A horrid scandal curses him with a pair of nuns, sent from the nearby nunnery of St. Frideswide’s to make sure all is kept right in the village.
Dame Frevisse, however, suspects that the scandal which has drawn her and the innocent Sister Thomasine from the safety of the priory is but the tip of a terrible intrigue which threatens both nunnery and village alike: The good, kind, and honest Master Naylor stands accused of a crime which threatens to strip him and his entire family of their freedom. Who could stand to profit from his loss? Is it the same silent killer who stalks the village youth? Or are they all being played like fools?
Yet even if Frevisse’s keen wit can lay bare the ugliness in the hearts of men, she fears that no amount of prayer will serve to cleanse her own soul of that sickly hate. Can even God pardon one who has turned from a holy path?
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Catholics, Women detectives, Epidemics, Nuns, Fiction, Village communities, Crime, Sister Frevisse (Fictitious character), History, Middle Ages, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Frevisse, sister (fictitious character), fiction, Nuns, fiction, England, fiction, Frevisse, Sister (Fictitious character) -- Fiction, Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 -- FictionPlaces
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The reeve's tale
1999, Berkley Prime Crime
in English
- Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed.
0425176673 9780425176672
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