5, 1996 The first volume in a projected series featuring Sister Fidelma, a seventh-century nun who is also a dlaigh (or advocate) authorized to practice law in the courts of her native Ireland. However, the two are so unlike that their partnership is described as that of a wolf and a fox - but which is which? More gruesome deaths follow, and the friction among the clerics could end in civil war. ABSOLUTION BY MURDER by Peter Tremayne RELEASE DATE: Jan. The king will decide who will be given supremacy in his kingdom. In AD, King Oswy of Northumbria convened a council at Whitby to hear a debate between the Roman Catholic and Celtic churches. The author is a scholar of some renown, who is also a very good writer of murder mysteries that usually occur in ancient Ireland. As an advocate of the Brehon Court, she is called on to investigate the murder with Brother Eadulf, of the Roman faction. Absolution by Murder is the first mystery novel in the Sister Fidelma series by author Peter Tremayne. When the Abbess Etain, a leading speaker for the Celtic Church, is found murdered, suspicion inevitably rests on the Roman faction.Īttending the Synod is Fidelma, of the community of St Brigid of Kildare. Conspirators plot an assassination while mysterious, violent death stalks the shadowy cloisters of the Abbey of St Hilda. Absolution by Murder is the brilliant and evocative first novel in Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma series, bringing seventh-century Ireland vividly to life.Īs the leading churchmen and women gather at the Synod of Whitby in AD 664 to debate the rival merits of the Celtic and Roman Churches, tempers begin to fray.
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