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The devil's seal a mystery of ancient Ireland

"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 you...

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Main Author: Tremayne, Peter (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Minotaur Books, 2015.
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Series: Sister Fidelma novels. 25.
Subjects:
Fidelma, > Sister (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Nuns > Fiction.
Women detectives > Ireland > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Catholics > Fiction.
Ireland > History > To 1172 > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction > Ireland.
Mystery fiction > Ireland.
Summary: "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"--Dust jacket flap.
Item Description: Originally published: Great Britain : Headline Publishing Group, 2014.
Physical Description: 338 pages : map ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9781250059727 (hbk.)
1250059720 (hbk.)
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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