Peter Tremayne, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13918-6
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...
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Peter Tremayne. Severn, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8818-1
The prologue of Tremayne’s tired 29th mystery set in seventh-century Ireland (after Night of the Lightbringer) depicts the abduction of Grella, the wife of the High King of the Five Kingdoms, shortly after she dispatches her female aide, Cairenn, to
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Peter Tremayne. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8817-4
At the start of Tremayne’s solid 28th whodunit set in seventh-century Ireland (after 2017’s Penance of the Damned), the Biblos Iakobos, a heretical book considered a serious threat to Christianity for its contention that Jesus was just a mortal...
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Peter Tremayne. Minotaur, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-11964-3
Treymane’s strong 27th whodunit set in seventh-century Ireland (after 2016’s The Second Death) combines significant developments concerning the Irish legal system with a seemingly impossible crime. Law advocate Fidelma, whose brother is Colgú, king...
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Peter Tremayne. Minotaur, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-08176-6
Set in Ireland in 671 C.E., Tremayne’s 26th Sister Fidelma mystery (after 2015’s The Devil’s Seal) has one of the author’s craftiest setups. After a strange wagon joins up with some traveling entertainers en route to perform for the Great Fair of...
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Peter Tremayne. Minotaur, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-05972-7
Tremayne’s 25th Sister Fidelma mystery set in seventh-century Ireland (after 2014’s Atonement of Blood) should please fans interested in the next chapter in the lives of Fidelma and her companion, Brother Eadulf, but newcomers may wonder what the...
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Peter Tremayne. Minotaur, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-04600-0
Unimpressive sleuthing and minimal suspense mar Tremayne’s 24th book set in seventh-century Ireland (after 2013’s The Seventh Trumpet). Colgú, King of Muman, has invited his sister, Fidelma, now an advocate in the law courts, and Eadulf, her husband,
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Peter Tremayne. Minotaur, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-65862-5
Set in 670 C.E., Tremayne’s 20th full-length Sister Fidelma whodunit (after 2012’s Behold a Pale Horse) is one of the weaker entries in an otherwise strong historical series. Fidelma, a law-court advocate, has given up her title of sister in the...
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Peter Tremayne. Minotaur, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-65863-2
Tremayne’s enjoyable 22nd seventh-century historical featuring Sister Fidelma (after 2011’s The Chalice of Blood) is, despite the subtitle, a sequel to the second Fidelma mystery, Shroud for the Archbishop (1995), set in Italy. On her journey home...
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Peter Tremayne. Minotaur, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-55121-6
In Tremayne’s superior 19th full-length seventh-century Irish historical (after 2010’s The Dove of Death), Sister Fidelma has decided to forsake her life as a religieuse, in order to apply for the position of Chief Brehon, the leading investigating...
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Peter Tremayne, Author Minotaur Books $16.99 (370p) ISBN 978-0-312-30382-2
Sister Fidelma fans-and they have their own international society (www.sisterfidelma.com)-will welcome Peter Tremayne's Whispers of the Dead: Fifteen Sister Fidelma Mysteries, the second story collection devoted to the seventh-century Irish...
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Peter Tremayne, Author Thomas Dunne Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-20939-1
Sister Fidelma and Brother Eadulf, her Saxon monk sidekick, are on their way to Gleann Geis, a remote pagan community in southwest Ireland, when they run across a horrible massacre: 33 young men have been ritually killed, their bodies laid out in a...
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Peter Tremayne, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-26864-0
As usual, persuasive period detail lifts Tremayne's (The Monk Who Vanished) latest Sister Fidelma mystery. The year is A.D. 666. On Ardmore Bay, on the Irish south coast, a tavern keeper named Colla finds the body of a young woman killed with a...
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Peter Tremayne, Author Minotaur Books $24.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-312-28769-6
In Peter Tremayne's The Haunted Abbot: A Mystery of Ancient Ireland, the 12th in this British historian's reliably entertaining Sister Fidelma series, foul play is afoot at Aldred's Abbey during the Yule season. Fidelma of Cashel and Brother...
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Peter Tremayne, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (267p) ISBN 978-0-312-28780-1
Seventh-century Irish nun Sister Fidelma faces one of her most challenging cases yet when her boat is blown off course and she and her companion, Brother Eadulf, land on the coast of the kingdom of Dyfed (modern-day Wales) in Peter Tremayne's...
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Peter Tremayne, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (270p) ISBN 978-0-312-27295-1
In Our Lady of Darkness: A Celtic Mystery, by British author Peter Tremayne (the pseudonym of Celtic historian Peter Berresford Ellis), Roman Penitential law and traditional Irish law come into conflict as Sister Fidelma finds herself defending ...
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Peter Tremayne, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-24219-0
In his seventh Sister Fidelma novel, Tremayne offers up a juicy plot, the rich details of which will appeal to those with an appetite for medieval minutiae. Those reluctant to wade through turgid dialogue trumpeted by stilted characters, however,...
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Peter Tremayne, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-20589-8
Rich with Irish lore, Tremayne's fifth entry in his Sister Fidelma series (following The Subtle Serpent) introduces readers to further Celtic law, religion and mores in a multilayered search for a cold-blooded killer. In A.D. 668, Fidelma, an...
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Peter Tremayne, Minotaur, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-55120-9
An intriguing lead and a tricky puzzle propel Tremayne's 18th whodunit featuring seventh-century Irish legal advocate Sister Fidelma (after 2009's The Council of the Cursed). When pirates board the Barnacle Goose, the ship on which Fidelma and her...
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Peter Tremayne, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (307p) ISBN 978-0-312-37565-2
Sister Fidelma encounters a raft of political, religious and cultural conundrums in Tremayne's engrossing 18th full-length novel to feature the seventh-century Celtic advocate (after 2008's Dancing with Demons
). Accompanied by her...
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Peter Tremayne, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (274p) ISBN 978-0-312-37564-5
Judicial advocate Sister Fidelma takes on her most sensitive assignment yet in Tremayne's excellent 16th mystery set in seventh-century Ireland (after 2007's A Prayer for the Damned
). When Sechnussach, “High King of the five...
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Peter Tremayne, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-34833-5
Tremayne's engrossing 17th Ancient Ireland mystery (after 2006's Master of Souls
) finds series heroine Fidelma on the eve of her marriage. Political and ecclesiastical bigwigs have gathered for the ceremony. The tremendously unpopular...
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Peter Tremayne, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-312-34832-8
Set in A.D. 668, the pseudonymous Tremayne's pitch-perfect 16th mystery to feature Fidelma of Cashel (after 2005's The Leper's Bell
) takes some diverting detours into politics, monastic life, the importance of bloodlines and the working
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Peter Tremayne, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-312-32343-1
In the pseudonymous Tremayne's intriguing 15th Irish historical (after 2005's Badger's Moon
), Fidelma of Cashel suffers a terrible personal loss. On returning in the fall of A.D. 667 to the castle of her brother, Colgú, who's
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Peter Tremayne. Severn, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8936-2
Set in 672 C.E., Tremayne’s gripping 30th whodunit featuring Irish investigative magistrate Fidelma (after 2018’s Bloodmoon) explores the religious and social tensions of its time when, as an author’s note indicates, “New concepts of Christianity...
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Peter Tremayne. Severn, $29.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8964-5
Tremayne returns to top form in his atmospheric 31st whodunit set in seventh-century Ireland (after 2019’s Blood in Eden). Law court advocate Sister Fidelma, who’s the sister of King Colgú of Muman, is frustrated. After an unsuccessful effort to...
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Peter Tremayne. Severn, $29.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8965-2
Set in 672 CE, Tremayne’s strong 32nd whodunit featuring Irish law advocate Sister Fidelma (after 2020’s The Shapeshifter’s Lair) finds Fidelma’s brother, Colgú, the king of Muman, preparing for the ceithirfine, “the annual gathering of the seven...
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Peter Tremayne. Severn, $29.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8966-9
In Tremayne’s superior 33rd mystery featuring seventh-century Irish law advocate Sister Fidelma (after 2021’s The House of Death), tragedy strikes the abbey of Imleach Iubhair, one of the kingdom’s most influential religious centers. An abbey...
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