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Dove of Death

ISBN 13: 9780755347247   ISBN 10: 0755347242
Author: Tremayne, Peter
Pub Date: 1 Mar 2010

Answer Code: Available

Edition Type: 1
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Headline

RRP: $25.99

Description
The gripping new novel in the internationally renowned Sister Fidelma crime series. AD 670. An Irish merchant ship is attacked by a pirate vessel off the coast of the Breton peninsular. Murchad, the captain, and a prince from the kingdom of Muman, are killed in cold blood after they have surrendered. Among the other passengers who manage to escape the slaughter are Sister Fidelma of Cashel and her faithful companion, Brother Eadulf. The prince was Fidelma's cousin and she is determined to bring the killers to justice...

Author Bio
Peter Tremayne is the fiction pseudonym of a well-known authority on the ancient Celts, who has utilised his knowledge of the Brehon law system and 7th-Century Irish society to create a new concept in detective fiction. In the Sister Fidelma Series: The Dove of Death (HC, 08/09); The Council of the Cursed (Afmt, 04/09); Dancing with Demons; A Prayer for the Damned; Master of Souls; The Leper's Bell; Whispers of the Dead; Badger's Moon; The Haunted Abbot; Smoke in the Wind; Hemlock At Vespers; Our Lady of Darkness; Act of Mercy; The Monk Who Vanished; Valley of the Shadow; The Spider's Web; The Subtle Serpent; Suffer Little Children; Shroud for the Archbishop; Absolution By Murder.