The Apostate's Tale
Margaret Frazer

First Time in Paperback

As the nuns of St. Frideswide's priory prepare for the welcome end of Lent, their peaceful expectations are overset by the sudden return of long-vanished Sister Cecely. Nine years ago she fled from the nunnery with a man. Now her lover is dead and she has come back, bringing her illegitimate son with her.

She claims she is penitent, that she wants only to redeem her sin and find safe haven for the child. Neither she nor her son can be turned away, but their presence begins to stir doubts and questions in the hearts of some of the nuns about their own faithfulness to this enclosed life they've chosen to live.

Sister Cecely may be penitent—however much Frevisse may doubt it—but fully truthful she is not, and as the apostate nun's lies begin to overtake her, dangers of more than one kind—and maybe murder—become an unwanted part of life in the priory.

(A Dame Frevisse Medieval Mystery #17)
Berkley (Prime Crime), January 2009
ISBN #9780425225578
320 pages Paperback
$7.99

Also by Margaret Frazer:
A Play of Heresy, December 2011
A Play of Piety, December 2010
A Play of Treachery, December 2009
The Traitor's Tale, January 2008
The Apostate's Tale, January 2008
A Play of Lords, August 2007
The Sempster's Tale, January 2007
The Traitor's Tale, January 2007
A Play of Knaves, August 2006
The Sempster's Tale, January 2006
The Widow's Tale, January 2006
A Play Of Dux Moraud, August 2005
The Widow's Tale, January 2005
The Hunter's Tale, December 2004
A Play of Isaac, August 2004
The Hunter's Tale, January 2004
The Bastard's Tale, January 2004
The Clerk's Tale, December 2002
The Squire's Tale, December 2001
The Reeve's Tale, September 2000
The Maiden's Tale, August 1998
The Prioress' Tale, August 1997
The Murderer's Tale, August 1996
The Boy's Tale, August 1995
The Bishop's Tale, December 1994
The Outlaw's Tale, February 1994
The Novice's Tale, November 1993
The Servant's Tale, November 1993

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