AuthorPeter Tremayne
NarratorCaroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 1
Duration9h 22m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, Historical Novels
PublisherHodder Headline
VersionUnabridged
Absolution by Murder is the brilliant and evocative first novel in Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma series, bringing seventh-century Ireland vividly to life. As the leading churchmen and women gather at the Synod of Whitby in AD 664 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?
Author: Peter Tremayne
Author Peter Tremayne
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 7
Duration 12h 52m
The Abbey of Imleach, in the south-west Irish kingdom of Muman, now rivals Armagh as the centre of the faith in Ireland. For the founder of the abbey was none other than St Ailbe, the man who brought Christianity to Muman, converted its king and baptised him at Cashel in AD448. But now, calamity has struck the community of the abbey. Not only has a...
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Author: Peter Tremayne
Author Peter Tremayne
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 3
Duration 11h 35m
Sister Fidelma follows a trail that is as suspenseful as it is tortuous in the riveting third novel in Peter Tremayne's unputdownable series. In the mid-7th Century AD, the Venerable Dacán, a much respected and beloved scholar of the Celtic Church, has been found murdered while on a visit to a remote abbey in the Irish Kingdom of Muman. When...
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Author: Peter Tremayne
Author Peter Tremayne
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 15
Duration 12h 43m
Sister Fidelma originally made her debut as one of crime fiction's most interesting sleuths in short story form. The sharp-witted religieuse captured the hearts of many readers as she successfully tackled the most baffling of crimes in her other role as advocate of the law courts of Ireland, using the ancient Brehon Law system. This collection cont...
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Author: Peter Tremayne
Author Peter Tremayne
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 35
Duration 11h 31m
While out walking, Abbot Brocc was shocked to encounter the sinister apparition of a young woman, cloaked entirely in grey, who foretold his impending death. Dismissing the soothsayer's words, Brocc nevertheless felt concerned enough to ask for Sister Fidelma's advice on the matter. But by the time Fidelma and her companions arrive at the remote ab...
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Author: Peter Tremayne
Author Peter Tremayne
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 5
Duration 11h 48m
Ebert is not a man to make enemies. He is a chieftain with a reputation for kindliness and generosity. Yet, one night, his household is aroused by a scream from his chamber. The servants burst in to find Móen, a young man to whom Eber had extended his protection, crouched over the bloody body of the chieftain. Móen's clothes are drenc...
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Author: Peter Tremayne
Author Peter Tremayne
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 18
Duration 12h 4m
When Sechnussach, High King of Ireland, is found dead in his bedchamber with his throat cut, all clues seem to suggest an all-too-obvious prime suspect. Dubh Duin, the chieftain of the clan Cinél Cairpre, was found with the murder weapon in his hand when the High King's guards entered the royal chamber, before taking his own life. The Chief...
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Author: Peter Tremayne
Author Peter Tremayne
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 10
Duration 11h 33m
Peter Tremayne, highly acclaimed author of HEMLOCK AT VESPERS and ACT OF MERCY, presents OUR LADY OF DARKNESS, the tenth gripping Celtic mystery featuring super-sleuth Sister Fidelma. Arriving home from a pilgrim voyage, Sister Fidelma hears that her faithful Saxon companion, Brother Eadulf, is under sentence of death for murder. She hastens to the...
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Author: Peter Tremayne
Author Peter Tremayne
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 12
Duration 11h 52m
As they are preparing to return to Ireland, Fidelma and Brother Eadulf receive a mysterious summons. Eadulf's childhood friend, Brother Botulf, has requested their presence at Aldred's Abbey at midnight on the old pagan feast of Yule. Fidelma and Eadulf battle against the harsh winter storms to arrive in time, only to find they are too late. Botulf...
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Author: Peter Tremayne
Author Peter Tremayne
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 8
Duration 11h 56m
When Sister Fidelma sets out on a pilgrimage in the autumn of AD 666, her main preoccupation is to reflect on her commitment to the religious life and her relationship with the Saxon monk, Eadulf, whom she has left behind. Complications arise during the first night on the ship when one of the pilgrims is apparently washed overboard. The discovery o...
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Author: Peter Tremayne
Author Peter Tremayne
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 9
Duration 16h 39m
Sister Fidelma originally made her debut as one of the decade's most interesting sleuths in short story form. The sharp-witted and astonishingly wise religieuse captured the hearts of many readers as she successfully tackled the most baffling of crimes in her other role as advocate of the law courts of Ireland, using the ancient Brehon Law system....
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