Dame Frevisse of St. Frideswide's nunnery, travels to London in the summer of 1450 to purchase funeral vestments for the Duke of Suffolk, and becomes caught up in a web of intrigue and murder centered around the widowed seamstress Anne Blakhall and her lover, Daved Weir, a merchant hiding the fact that he is a Jew.

THE PLAY'S THE THING, TO CATCH THE CONSCIENCE OF A KILLER . . . The Christmas season brings strange guests to the medieval nunnery of St. Frideswide's when a troupe of penniless players comes knocking at the gate. They bear with them the badly mangled body of a villager, swearing they found the drunken fool lying in a ditch. But Meg, the victim's wife and a scullery maid of the cloister, thinks there are far fouler deeds afoot. As the players rehearse...