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asked quietly in return.  "They saw her do it."
    "What do you believe?" Frevisse asked, unable to tell from his neutral expression and voice.
    Instead of an answer to that, Master Naylor said, "I think a straw-filled loft is not an uncomfortable place to be for a week and more this time of year.  And that by the time summer comes there'll be a new herb-wife in the village, maybe even with the same first name but someone's widowed sister from somewhere else, freeborn like Margery was and no questions asked."
    "And after all, witchcraft in itself is no crime or sin," Frevisse said.  "The wrong lies in the use it's put to."
    "And all the village knows Margery has ever used her skills for good, except this one time, if you judge what she did was ill.  All her neighbors judge it wasn't," Master Naylor said solemnly.
    "They mean to keep her even if it costs them?" Frevisse asked.
    "They know she's a good woman.  And now that they're certain she has power, she's not someone they want to lose."
    "Or to cross," Frevisse said.
    Master Naylor came as near to a smile as he ever came, but only said, "There'll likely be no trouble with anyone beating her ever again."

Margaret Frazer
    Margaret Frazer is the award-winning author of more than twenty historical murder mysteries and novels. She makes her home in Minneapolis, Minnesota surrounded by the things she loves, but she lives her life in the 1400s. In writing her Edgar-nominated Sister Frevisse (
The Novice's Tale
) and Player Joliffe (
A Play of Isaac
) novels she delves far inside medieval perceptions, seeking to look at medieval England more from its point of view than ours. "Because the pleasure of going thoroughly into otherwhen as well as otherwhere is one of the great pleasures in reading."
    She can be visited online at http://www.margaretfrazer.com.

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Sister Frevisse Mysteries
    Beginning in the year of Our Lord's grace 1431, the Sister Frevisse mysteries are an epic journey of murder and mayhem in 15th century England.
    The Novice's Tale
    The Servant's Tale (Edgar-Award Nominee)
    The Outlaw's Tale
    The Bishop's Tale (Minnesota Book Award Nominee)
    The Boy's Tale
    The Murderer's Tale
    The Prioress' Tale (Edgar-Award Nominee)
    The Maiden's Tale
    The Reeve's Tale (Minnesota Book Award Nominee)
    The Squire's Tale
    The Clerk's Tale
    The Bastard's Tale
    The Hunter's Tale
    The Widow's Tale
    The Sempster's Tale
    The Traitor's Tale
    The Apostate's Tale

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    Cover Art: Henri Royer, Paysanne au tombeau, 1935.
    Cover Design: Justin Alexander