Night of the lightbringer / Peter Tremayne.

By: Tremayne, Peter [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Tremayne, Peter. Sister Fidelma novels ; [28]Publisher: London : Headline, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xiv, 352 pages : map ; 24 cmContent type: still image | cartographic image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472238696 (hardback); 1472238699 (hardback)Other title: Night of the light bringerSubject(s): Fidelma, Sister (Fictitious character) | Fidelma, Sister (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | To 1172 | Historical fiction | Detective and mystery stories | Fidelma, Sister (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation | Nuns | Women detectives | Women detectives -- Ireland -- Fiction | Nuns -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Ireland | Ireland -- History -- To 1172 -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction | Detective and mystery fiction | Historical fiction. | Mystery fiction. | Historical fiction | Detective and mystery fiction | Detective and mystery fiction. | Fiction. | Historical fiction. | History. | Historical fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. Additional physical formats: ebook version: No titleDDC classification: 823.92 Summary: Ireland, AD 671. On the eve of the pagan feast of Samhain, Brother Edulf and the warrior, Aidan, discover a man murdered in an unlit pyre in the heart of Cashel. He has been dressed in the robes of a religieux and killed by the ritualistic 'three deaths'. When a strange woman known as Brancheo appears in a raven-feather cloak foretelling of ancient gods returning to exact revenge upon the mortal world, she is quickly branded a suspect.But in their search for the killer, Sister Fidelma and Eadulf will soon discover a darker shadow looming over the fortress. For their investigation is linked to a book stolen from the Papal Secret Archives which could destroy the New Faith in the Five Kingdoms...and Fidelma herself will come up against mortal danger before the case is unravelled.
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Ireland, AD 671. On the eve of the pagan feast of Samhain, Brother Edulf and the warrior, Aidan, discover a man murdered in an unlit pyre in the heart of Cashel. He has been dressed in the robes of a religieux and killed by the ritualistic 'three deaths'. When a strange woman known as Brancheo appears in a raven-feather cloak foretelling of ancient gods returning to exact revenge upon the mortal world, she is quickly branded a suspect.But in their search for the killer, Sister Fidelma and Eadulf will soon discover a darker shadow looming over the fortress. For their investigation is linked to a book stolen from the Papal Secret Archives which could destroy the New Faith in the Five Kingdoms...and Fidelma herself will come up against mortal danger before the case is unravelled.

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