Book description
February, AD 668, and Cashel is full of distinguished visitors. Under
the old Irish custom, Fidelma of Cashel and Eadulf of Seaxmund's Ham,
having been joined together for a year and a day, are to be married. But
on the eve of the ceremony, the pious Abbot Ultán is found murdered in
his chamber. Worse still - one of the most distinguished guests, the
King of Connacht, is seen fleeing from the scene and charged with the
murder. He demands his right to appoint Fidelma in his defence. Fidelma
soon discovers that Abbot Ultán is not the pious man he was thought to
be - indeed, many of the guests have cause to hate him. It is a long
weekend of suspicion, fear and more death before Fidelma and Eadulf are
able to reveal the truth behind Ultán's murder. 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.
