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A huntsman and seriously abusive father/husband dies mysteriously in the forest, to no one's dismay. Unfortunately, he manages to leave his widow and heirs in a fairly impossible situation through an unreasonable will, and a neighbor starts to take a suspicious interest in the widow. Somewhere along the line, I forget how exactly, Dame Frevisse the detecting nun gets involved. I wonder if it says something about the construction of the plot that I can, at a few months' remove and after reading a couple more in the same series, neither remember how she got there nor what if anything she accomplishes once there; the family tragedy unfolds regardless, and the dogs are the most interesting characters, on the whole.

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Date: 2009-11-11 03:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] athenais.livejournal.com
I've probably told you this before, but I loved the Sister Frevisse mysteries up through book 8, after which the remaining writer of the duo got to plot everything herself. The books promptly underwent a change in Sister Frevisse's character that was so profound I didn't recognize her as the same character. Obviously, the spiritual half left and the adequate but not terribly inspired half stayed. :(

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