FRAZER, MARGARET — The Clerk's Tale

New York, Berkley Publishing Group. 2002. (ISBN: 0425187381) Soft cover. Book, [Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries Series] St. Mary's nunnery is a place of prayer and healing for women so it is surprising to see a man sprawled out in the cloister garden. Dead. Less surprising, to Dame Frevisse, was the identity of the victim. Master Montfort was not particularly liked by anyone in the town of Goring--even his own wife and clerk. As royal escheator, he was trying to settle a heated inheritance dispute between a wealthy woman and her supposed nephew.Now Dame Frevisse must step in and untangle the fortunes and felonies in this complicated ease of political and familial rivalries. But her real challenge is to put aside her feelings and serve justice for the murder of an unjust man. Fine.