Absolution By Murder

Author : Peter Tremayne
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312139187
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absolution by Murder written by Peter Tremayne and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 7th Century, King Oswy of Northumbria convenes a synod to hear debate between the Roman and Celtic churches. He has to decide which shall be granted primacy in his kingdom. When an abbess from the Celtic church is murdered, an investigation is launched by Sister Fidelma, Celtic, and Brother Eadfulf, Roman.

Author : Peter Tremayne
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466814012
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absolution By Murder written by Peter Tremayne and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 1995-12-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A.D. 664, King Oswy of Northumbria has convened a synod at Whitby to hear debate between the Roman and Celtic Christian churches and decide which shall be granted primacy in his kingdom. At stake is much more than a few disputed points of ritual; Oswy's decision could affect the survival of either church in the Saxon kingdoms. When the Abbess Etain, a leading speaker for the Celtic church, is found murdered, suspicion falls upon the Roman faction. In order to diffuse the tensions that threaten to erupt into civil war, Oswy turns to Sister Fidelma of the Celtic Church (Irish and an advocate for the Brehon Court) and Brother Eadulf of the Roman church (from east Anglia and of a family of hereditary magistrates) to find the killer. But as further murders occur and a treasonous plot against Oswy matures, Fidelma and Eadulf soon find themselves running out of time.

Author : Peter Tremayne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451192990
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absolution by Murder written by Peter Tremayne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The King of Northumbria has requested the services of a wise counsel to decide the people's religious future. Among the select priests, elders, and scholars from Ireland and Rome is Sister Fidelma of Kildare. Trained as an advocate of the courts, she was expecting to rule on issues of law. Instead she was plunged into unholy murder. Dead was the Abbess Étain, a leading Celtic speaker, her throat slashed. With the counsel in an uproar and civil war threatening, the desperate king has turned to the sharp-witted Sister Fidelma for help. With the aide of her dear friend Brother Eadulf and her faith in the truth, she must act in haste before the killer strikes again.

Author : Peter Tremayne
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466814039
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suffer Little Children written by Peter Tremayne and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 1997-07-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sister Fidelma returns in another spellbinding story of murder and intrigue in seventh-century Ireland--when the murder of a high cleric threatens to result in a bloody war between two of Ireland's kingdoms. In A.D. 644, the Venerable Dacan, a respected scholar of the Celtic Church, is murdered while on a visit to the Abbey of Ros Ailithir in the Irish Kingdom of Muman. Dacan, unfortunately, was the close confidant of the hot-headed young king of the neighboring kingdom of Fearna, who is using Dacan's murder as an excuse to provoke war. Sister Fidelma, an advocate of the Brehon courts, is summoned by the dying King of Muman to solve the brutal killing and also to prevent the incipient war between the two kingdoms. But, at the remote abbey, Fidelma soon discovers that there are far more sinister forces than mere political intrigue at work behind the mystery of Dacan's death. She must quickly unravel a most complicated mystery if she is to prevent the coming war--and preserve her own life as well. With a mix of historical detail and deft characterization, Peter Tremayne once again brings ancient Ireland to full, vivid life.

Author : Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250136318
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Absolution written by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Absolution is the third installment in Queen of Icelandic crime fiction Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s series about the psychologist Freyja and the police officer Huldar. The police find out about the crime the way everyone does: on Snapchat. The video shows a terrified young woman begging for forgiveness. When her body is found, it is marked with a number “2”. Detective Huldar joins the investigation, bringing child psychologist Freyja on board to help question the murdered teenager's friends. Soon, they uncover that Stella was far from the angel people claim, but who could have hated her enough to kill? Then another teenager goes missing, more clips are sent to social media, and the body with a “3” is found. Freyja and Huldar can agree on two things at least: the truth is far from simple. The killer is not done yet. And is there an undiscovered body carrying the number “1” out there?

Author : Peter Tremayne
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429993537
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Haunted Abbot written by Peter Tremayne and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December of 666 A.D., Fidelma of Cashel and her companion Brother Eadulf, having completed their business with the Archbishop of Canterbury, make one final journey before returning to Ireland. At the insistence of Brother Botulf, a childhood friend of Eadulf, they detour from their trip to Eadulf's home village and make their way to Aldred's Abbey. Arriving at midnight on the night of the old pagan festival of Yule, as requested, they find Botulf's dead body - his head caved in by a blunt instrument. As Fidelma and Eadulf soon learn, however, murder isn't the only danger which faces those in the abbey. The ghost of a young woman haunts the cloister shadows, a ghost which closely resembles the Abbot's dead wife. Now it will require all of Fidelma's skill as an advocate of the Brehon Courts to unravel the mystery and uncover the truth behind these events before those secrets take yet another life.

Author : Peter Tremayne
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429942126
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dove of Death written by Peter Tremayne and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A.D. 670, an Irish merchant ship is attacked by a pirate vessel off the southern coast of the Breton peninsula. Merchad, the ship's captain, and Bressal, a prince from the Irish kingdom of Muman, are killed in cold blood after they have surrendered. Among the other passengers who manage to escape the slaughter are Fidelma of Cashel and her faithful companion, Brother Eadulf. Once safely ashore, Fidelma—sister to the King of Muman and an advocate of the Brehon law courts—is determined to bring the killers to justice, not only because her training demands it but also because one of the victims was her cousin. The only clue to the killer's identity is the symbol of the dove on the attacking ship's sails, a clue that leads her on a dangerous quest to confront the man known as The Dove of Death.

Author : Peter Tremayne
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250014832
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behold a Pale Horse written by Peter Tremayne and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perplexing case of murder and conspiracy in the pagan wilds of Northern Italy In 664 A.D., just after the events detailed in Shroud for the Archbishop, Fidelma of Cashel takes a unexpected detour on her trip home from Rome. While in the port at Genua (modern day Genoa), Fidelma—sister of one Ireland's kings and an advocate in her country's law courts—receives word that one of her old teachers, Brother Ruadan, is reaching the end of his days. Determined to see her old mentor one last time, Fidelma takes the treacherous journey to a remote abbey in the countryside—a place where the old pagan religion still has a hold and where even the Christians are often in bloody conflict with each other. But after she hears her dying teacher's last words, Fidelma's most dangerous adventure has just begun. With one murder after the next and a vicious war in the offing, it is up to Fidelma, alone and on her own, to unravel an extraordinary conspiracy before it is too late.

Author : Peter Tremayne
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466814020
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shroud for the Archbishop written by Peter Tremayne and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 1996-08-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wighard, Archbishop designate of Canterbury, has been found dead, garrotted in his chambers in Rome's Lateran Palace in the autumn of A.D. 664. His murderer seems apparent to all, since an Irish religieux was arrested by the palace guards as he fled Wighard's chamber, but the monk denies responsibility for the crime, and the treasures missing from Wighard's chambers are nowhere to be found. The bishop in charge of affairs at the Lateran Palace suspects a political motive and is wary of charging someone without independent evidence. So he asks Sister Fidelma of the Celtic Church to look into Wighard's death. Fidelma (an advocate of the Brehon Court), working with Brother Eadulf of the Roman Church, quickly finds herself with very few clues, too many motives, a trail strewn with bodies--and very little time before the killer strikes again.

Author : Peter Tremayne
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466865067
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Seal written by Peter Tremayne and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland, A.D. 671. An Anglo-Saxon delegation arrives in Cashel to debate the new religious rules that have been handed down from Rome. The Abbot of Imleach leads the Irish delegation, which is hostile to the new rules from outsiders. Among the Anglo-Saxon group is Brother Eadulf's own younger brother, Egric, whom Eadulf hasn't seen for many years. When the debate quickly becomes acrimonious, a local abbess has to step in as a mediator between the two sides. But not even a day later her body is discovered, bludgeoned to death. The Chief Brehon Aillín accuses young Egric of murder, and suspicions and tempers run high. With the war of words threatening to spill over into bloodshed, Fidelma is sure there is something more sinister behind the murder than religious differences, and she is resolved to find out what really happened-and why.