A Mystery Of Medieval Ireland
Minotaur Books
December 2009
On Sale: November 24, 2009
368 pages ISBN: 0312372698 EAN: 9780312372699 Hardcover Add to Wish List
βOnce again, Cora Harrison brings sixteenth-century Ireland beautifully to life and her Brehon detective, Mara, is a fantastic protagonistβan absolute one-off and yet refreshingly real.β βThe Historical Novel Society on A Secret and Unlawful Killing (Editorsβ Choice)
The year is 1509 and autumn has come to the Burren in western Ireland. Itβs a time of harvest and preparation for the winter to comeβthe end of summer and, for some, the end of life. When Mara attends the funeral of a local priest of the Burren, the last thing she expects to discover is another corpse on the church stepsβa man stung to death by bees.
Sorley, the silversmith, was a greedy and distrusted man: there would be no shortage of people who wanted him dead. But who really stood to profit from his murder? As Mara investigates, she must use all her cunning and prowess as a judge to bring the sting of justice to a killer with a hate-filled heart and a murderous mind.