As an advocate of the Brehon Court, she is called on to investigate the murder with Brother Eadulf, of the Roman faction. 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. Even Brother Cadfael might have tolerated her’ Kirkus ReviewsĪs the leading churchmen and women gather at the Synod of Whitby in 664AD to debate the rival merits of the Celtic and Roman Churches, tempers begin to fray.
PRAISE FOR ABSOLUTION BY MURDER: ‘In the simultaneously sharp-tongued and full womanly figure of Sister Fidelma, Tremayne has created a heroine whom many readers will willingly follow. ABSOLUTION BY MURDER is the brilliant and evocative first novel in Peter Tremayne’s Sister Fidelma series, bringing 7th-century Ireland vividly to life.
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