The Second Death

Information about the author
Peter Tremayne is the fiction pseudonym of a well-known authority on the ancient Celts, who has utilized his knowledge of the Brehon law system and 7th-century Irish society to create a new concept in detective fiction. The Sister Fidelma series has now been published to great acclaim for over twenty years.

Blurb text
Ireland, AD 671. The Great Fair of Bealtain is almost upon the fortress of Cashel, and a line of painted wagons carries entertainers to the occasion. But preparations take a deathly turn when one carriage is set alight, and two corpses are found poisoned within. As Sister Fidelma and her companion, Eadulf, investigate, they are plunged into the menacing marshlands of Osraige, where the bloody origin of the Abbey of Cainnech wreaks revenge. What is the symbolism of the Golden Stone, and who are the members of the Fellowship?.