Behold A Pale Horse (Sister Fidelma Mysteries Book 22): A captivating Celtic mystery of heart-stopping suspense
By (Author) Peter Tremayne
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
8th May 2012
1st March 2012
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
416
Width 130mm, Height 196mm, Spine 30mm
335g
The brilliant new novel by the internationally bestselling author of the Sister Fidelma mystery series.
AD 664: Sister Fidelma finds herself in the seaport of Genua, en route from Rome back to her native Cashel. Her old teacher, Brother Ruad n, lies dying in the abbey of Bobium - an isolated abbey in a disturbed country where even the Christians are in bloody conflict with one another and the worship of the pagan gods often prevails. Fidelma is determined to see Brother Ruad n before he dies. But from the moment she enters the beautiful valley of the Trebbia, there is danger on every side. Her dying teacher's last words send her off on her most dangerous adventure where murder follows murder and a vicious civil war threatens before an extraordinary conspiracy is revealed. And from the start, Fidelma is on her own...Praise for Peter Tremayne's novels: 'Wonderfully evocative * The Times *
A brilliant and beguiling heroine. Immensely appealing, difficult to put down * Publishers Weekly *
Definitely an Ellis Peter competitor...the background detail is marvellous * Evening Standard *
Well-paced and suspenseful, sprinkled with Old Irish terms and fascinating details of early Irish life...Fidelma is a an original and complex character...An Irish heroine for both the seventh and twenty-first centuries * Books Ireland *
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.