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sufue · 10-24-2014, 02:21 PM

I have read all of the books available to date in this series, and I regard them simply as good medieval/historical mysteries and not as Christian mysteries at all.

I'm pretty sensitive to this, and really don't like books which inject religion (of any flavor) into the mystery with no good reason, but as AT Drake mentions, the medieval background pretty much comes with a fair amount of religion, and that's just the way it was. I regard this series (which I quite like) in the same very acceptable historical mystery crowd as Ellis Peters/Brother Cadfael, Margaret Frazer/Sister Frevisse, Peter Tremayne/Sister Fidelma, etc...

Unfortunately none of these show up as free for me right now (Amazon US or Kobo US), but the first four are all at $2.99, and for this series/publisher that's still pretty good. All of them have been on sale or couponable before somewhere in the world (or I wouldn't have bought them!), but usually more in the $4-ish or $5-ish range, so this is still good.

10-24-2014, 02:21 PM	#2
sufue lost in my e-reader... Posts: 8,159 Karma: 66191692 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: sunny southern California, USA Device: Android phone, Sony T1, Nook ST Glowlight, Galaxy Tab 7 Plus	I have read all of the books available to date in this series, and I regard them simply as good medieval/historical mysteries and not as Christian mysteries at all. I'm pretty sensitive to this, and really don't like books which inject religion (of any flavor) into the mystery with no good reason, but as AT Drake mentions, the medieval background pretty much comes with a fair amount of religion, and that's just the way it was. I regard this series (which I quite like) in the same very acceptable historical mystery crowd as Ellis Peters/Brother Cadfael, Margaret Frazer/Sister Frevisse, Peter Tremayne/Sister Fidelma, etc... Unfortunately none of these show up as free for me right now (Amazon US or Kobo US), but the first four are all at $2.99, and for this series/publisher that's still pretty good. All of them have been on sale or couponable before somewhere in the world (or I wouldn't have bought them!), but usually more in the $4-ish or $5-ish range, so this is still good. Last edited by sufue; 10-24-2014 at 02:31 PM.