Valley of the Shadow (Sister Fidelma Mysteries Book 6): A fascinating Celtic mystery of deadly deceit
By (Author) Peter Tremayne
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
9th September 1998
13th August 1998
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Historical fiction
823.914
Paperback
352
Width 114mm, Height 177mm, Spine 23mm
196g
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 LaisrePeter 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.