Margaret Frazer, The Hunter's Tale
Nov. 10th, 2009 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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)(no subject)
Date: 2009-11-11 03:34 am (UTC)I keep a list of the ones I have on my PDA, so that I can keep looking for the missing middle ones; they're stupid-expensive on Amazon, but that doesn't always mean one can't find things lurking in used bookstores now and again.