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 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 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 4
Duration 12h 2m
Sister Fidelma is thrown into a sinister mystery full of intrigue, danger and violence in Peter Tremayne's fourth Celtic mystery. A headless female corpse is found in the drinking well of a remote abbey in south-west Ireland. One hand clasps a crucifix; tied to the other arm is a pagan death symbol... A merchant ship is encountered under full sail...
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Author: Peter Tremayne
Author Peter Tremayne
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 6
Duration 11h 58m
Super-sleuth Sister Fidelma faces personal danger as proceeds through the valley of the shadow in the stunning sixth historical mystery by Peter Tremayne. 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 t...
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Author: Peter Tremayne
Author Peter Tremayne
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 33
Duration 12h 8m
IRELAND AD 672. The abbey of Muman at Imleach Iubhair is being renovated when its guests' hostel burns to the ground. There is one fatality: Bishop Brodulf of Luxovium, a distinguished visitor and cousin to the King of Franks. Sister Fidelma is asked by Abbot Cuán to investigate the unfortunate incident and soon finds that the bishop had bee...
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Author: Peter Tremayne
Author Peter Tremayne
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 21
Duration 12h 9m
Ireland AD 670. When an eminent scholar is found murdered in his cell in the abbey of Lios Mór, fear spreads among his brethren; his door was secured from the inside, with no other means of exit. How did the murderer escape? And what was the content of the manuscripts apparently stolen from the scholar's room? Abbot Iarnla insists on sending...
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Author: Peter Tremayne
Author Peter Tremayne
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 22
Duration 11h 51m
AD 664: Sister Fidelma finds herself in the seaport of Genua, en route from Rome back to her native Cashel. Her old teacher, Brother Ruadán, 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 i...
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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 14
Duration 11h 23m
A servant has been murdered and the baby in her charge abducted. Fidelma of Cashel has solved even more horrendous crimes in her career as an advocate of the ancient Brehon Courts of Ireland. But this case is different. For both Sister Fidelma and her companion, Brother Eadulf of Saxmund's Ham, the case is unique because of the personal emotions in...
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Author: Peter Tremayne
Author Peter Tremayne
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 20
Duration 12h 41m
AD 670. An Irish merchant ship is attacked by a pirate vessel off the coast of the Breton peninsular. Murchad, the captain, and a prince from the kingdom of Muman, are killed in cold blood after they have surrendered. Among the other passengers who manage to escape the slaughter are Sister Fidelma of Cashel and her faithful companion, Brother Eadul...
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