Book description
Sister Fidelma has been sent by her brother, king of Cashel, to Laisre,
chieftain of Gleann Geis - the 'forbidden valley' - to negotiate
permission to build a Christian church and school in his territory,
replacing the pagan Druidic sanctuaries. Laisre is known to be hostile
to the new religion, and Fidelma knows her mission will be no easy task.
Entering Gleann Geis with the Saxon Brother Eadulf, she comes across the
naked, slain bodies of thirty-three young men, positioned in a sunwise
circle. Each body bears the marks of stabbing and garrotting; every
skull has been smashed. Who is reponsible for such evil, if not the
heathen Laisre? 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.
