Peter Berresford Ellis est un historien et biographe littéraire de renom, reconnu comme une autorité en matière d'histoire et de culture celtiques. Sous divers pseudonymes, notamment Peter Tremayne, il a créé des récits historiques captivants et des séries de mystère à succès international. Son œuvre se distingue par une immersion profonde dans les contextes historiques et une représentation vivante du passé. Ellis donne vie avec maestria au monde complexe des anciennes sociétés celtiques, captivant les lecteurs par sa perspicacité érudite et son talent narratif.
During a pilgrimage from Ireland to the Shrine of St. James in Spain, a pilgrim disappears overboard, leaving a blood-stained robe behind, and Fidelma of Cashel sets out to uncover the truth before the ship reaches the shrine and the killer can vanish forever. Reprint.
ABSOLUTION BY MURDER is the brilliant and evocative first novel in Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma series, bringing 7th-century Ireland vividly to life.As the leading churchmen and women gather at the Synod of Whitby in 664AD to debate the rival merits of the Celtic and Roman Churches, tempers begin to fray. Conspirators plot an assassination, while mysterious, violent death stalks the shadowy cloisters of the Abbey of St Hilda. When the Abbess Etain, a leading speaker for the Celtic Church, is found murdered suspicion inevitably rests on the Roman faction.Attending the Synod is Fidelma, of the community of St Brigid of Kildare. As an advocate of the Brehon Court, she is called on to investigate the murder with Brother Eadulf, of the Roman faction. However, the two are so unlike that their partnership is described as that of a wolf and a fox - but which is which?More gruesome deaths follow and the friction among the clerics could end in civil war. Can the solution to the mysteries avert such a conflict?