The Outlaw's Tale — Margaret Frazer

ACT OF MERCY, ACT OF MURDER

On her way to a baptism, Sister Frevisse finds blood is thicker than water... and as easily spilled. Waylaid by a band of outlaws, she learns that their leader is her long-lost cousin Nicholas. He asks Frevisse's help to get him pardoned for his crimes. But while Frevisse is lodging at the home of Nicholas's business companion, someone commits an unpardonable act: murder.

Now Frevisse must discover who robbed a rich landowner of his purse and his life--even if it means her own kin is condemned...

In the tradition of Ellis Peters's Brother Cadfael novels, Sister Frevisse is sinfully good at discerning the mysteries of the soul...and solving the crimes of the human heart.