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. As an advocate of the Brehon Court, she is called on to investigate the murder with Brother Eadulf, of the Roman faction. Attending the Synod is Fidelma, of the community of St Brigid of Kildare. When the Abbess Etain, a leading speaker for the Celtic Church, is found murdered suspicion inevitably rests on the Roman faction. Read more shadowy cloisters of the Abbey of St Hilda. Conspirators plot an assassination, while mysterious, violent death stalks the.

Even Brother Cadfael might have tolerated her' Kirkus Reviews As 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. The brilliant and evocative first novel in the Sister Fidelma series brings 7th-century Ireland vividly to life Series: Sister Fidelma. More gruesome deaths follow and the friction among the clerics could end in civil war.Description for Absolution by Murder: A Sister Fidelma Mystery Paperback. However, the two are so unlike that their partnership is described as that of a wolf and a fox – but which is which? 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.

Absolution by murder