The Apostate's Tale by Margaret Frazer

I probably shouldn't have started Margaret Frazer's series of mysteries with the latest story. I felt like I was missing a lot of backstory that is probably fleshed out in the beginning of the series. I think the concept of setting murder mysteries in the Middle Ages is quite neat, and I think Ms. Frazer does a fairly good job of bridging the time gap. In this particular mystery, I felt like the text itself was conflicted about Sister Cecely (whose name was not even consistently spelled) and I was having a hard time reconciling myself to the fact that she was "stupid" and a bad mother; the story opens from her perspective, and I felt it hard to shake that sympathy.