Absolution By Murder (Magna Large Print General Series) - Hardcover

Tremayne, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750509295 ISBN 13: 9780750509299

Publisher: Magna Large Print Books, 1996

Synopsis

As churchmen gather at the Synod of Whitby in 664 AD to debate the rival merits of the Celtic and Roman churches, tempers begin to fray. Mysterious, violent death stalks the shadowy cloisters of St Hilda's Abbey. Sister Fidelma is called on to investigate the murder of the Abbess Etain. More violent deaths follow and the friction amongst the clerics is beginning to split the kingdom into civil war. Can the solution to the mysteries avert such a disastrous conflict?

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About the Author

Peter Tremayne is the pseudonym for Peter Berresford Ellis, a well-respected authority on the ancient Celts. He is the author of over twenty books, including The Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, The Celtic Dawn: A History of Pan Celticism, and The Druids. Valley of the Shadow is the sixth Sister Fidelma mystery. Tremayne lives in London, England.

From Publishers Weekly

This immensely appealing launch of a new series is set in seventh-century Ireland, which in Tremayne's rendering is a golden age of enlightenment and of total equality for women. Such narrative stumbling blocks as an abundance of stereotypical characters and much more dynastic trivia, ecclesiastical and secular history than can be absorbed are offset by the vigorous, intriguing puzzle posed by a series of murders and by Sister Fidelma, the tale's brilliant and beguiling heroine. An ecclesiastical conclave to settle major divisions between the Roman and Celtic branch of Christianity is held at Whitby in 664. When a major proponent of the Celtic way, the Abbess of Kildare, is murdered, Sister Fidelma, a fellow Celtic follower and legally trained scholar, is asked to investigate. She is paired with her ideological opposite, Brother Eadulf, on the Roman side, who is shrewd, highly educated and immediately smitten with the outspoken sister. The intellectual and physical sparks that are ignited between these two clerics (in an age before celibacy) light up the pages, and when two monks are killed and the malevolence thickens, the book becomes difficult to put down. It is reassuring to read that Sister Fidelma and Brother Eadulf will reappear... next time in Rome.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750509295
• ISBN 13: 9780750509299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 351