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The seventh trumpet a mystery of Ancient Ireland

Summoned by her brother, the king, when the body of a murdered noble is discovered near Cashel in 670 Ireland, Fidelma and her companion, Eadulf, follow scanty clues linking the victim a violent uprising under the leadership of a religious fanatic. By the author of Behold a Pale Horse.

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Main Author: Tremayne, Peter
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Minotaur Books, 2013.
Edition:First U.S. Edition.
Series:Tremayne, Peter. Sister Fidelma novels. 23.
Subjects:
Fidelma, > Sister (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Nuns > Fiction.
Women detectives > Ireland > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Ireland > History > To 1172 > Fiction.
Historical fiction > Ireland.
Mystery fiction > Ireland.
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Summary:Summoned by her brother, the king, when the body of a murdered noble is discovered near Cashel in 670 Ireland, Fidelma and her companion, Eadulf, follow scanty clues linking the victim a violent uprising under the leadership of a religious fanatic. By the author of Behold a Pale Horse.
Physical Description:336 pages : maps ; 24 cm
ISBN:9780312658625 (hardcover)
0312658621 (hardcover)
Author Notes:Peter Tremayne is the fiction writing pseudonym of the Celtic scholar and author Peter Berresford Ellis, who was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England on March 10, 1943. Even though he received a BA and an MA in Celtic Studies, he decided to become a journalist and worked at numerous weekly newspapers throughout England and Ireland. In 1968, he published is first book, Wales: A Nation Again, about the Welsh struggle for political independence. He became a full-time writer in 1975 and has published over 90 books under his own name and the pseudonyms Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan. One of his best known works under his real name is The Cornish Language and its Literature, which is considered the definitive history of the language. In 1988, he received an Irish Post Award in recognition of his services to Irish historical studies. Under the pseudonym Peter Tremayne, he writes the Sister Fidelma Mystery series. He received the French Prix Historia for the best historical mystery novel of 2010 for Le Concile des Maudits (The Council of the Cursed).

(Bowker Author Biography)

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