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In a brutal and unforgiving 7th Century Irish landscape, Fidelma and Eadulf face their fourteenth perilous investigation

About the Author

Peter Tremayne is the fiction pseudonym of a well-known authority on the ancient Celts, who has utilised his knowledge of the Brehon law system and 7th-Century Irish society to create a new concept in detective fiction.

Reviews

Praise for the Sister Fidelma Series: 'Definitely an Ellis Peters competitor
*Evening Standard*

This is masterly storytelling from an author who breathes fascinating life into the worth he is writing about
*Belfast Telegraph*

A compulsive readable whodunit fronted by one of the most reliably intriguing characters to grace the pages of the genre
*Booklist*

Tremayne's super-sleuth is a vibrant creation
*Morgan Llywelyn*

A brilliant and beguiling heroine. Immensely appealing
*Publishers Weekly*

Praise for the Sister Fidelma Series: 'Definitely an Ellis Peters competitor * Evening Standard *
This is masterly storytelling from an author who breathes fascinating life into the worth he is writing about * Belfast Telegraph *
A compulsive readable whodunit fronted by one of the most reliably intriguing characters to grace the pages of the genre * Booklist *
Tremayne's super-sleuth is a vibrant creation * Morgan Llywelyn *
A brilliant and beguiling heroine. Immensely appealing * Publishers Weekly *

Set in A.D. 668, the pseudonymous Tremayne's pitch-perfect 16th mystery to feature Fidelma of Cashel (after 2005's The Leper's Bell) takes some diverting detours into politics, monastic life, the importance of bloodlines and the working of civil law vs. the emerging power of the Roman Catholic church. Fidelma, a d laigh (or advocate of the law courts), follows a difficult path in an effort to solve the murder of Abbess Faife of Fhearta Abbey and the abduction of six novices in the abbess's charge. The subsequent bludgeoning death of Cin ed, an elderly scholar in residence at the abbey, and the wrecking of a ship on the west Irish coast complicate her task. Once again, Tremayne, the author of many books on the ancient Celts under his real name of Peter Berresford Ellis, transports the reader to an unfamiliar time and place with a sure scholarly touch. (Nov.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.