This book contains violent and/or sexual content.
AuthorPeter Tremayne
NarratorCaroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 22
Duration11h 51m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, Historical Novels
PublisherHodder Headline
VersionUnabridged
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 is determined to see Brother Ruadán 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...
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
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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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 2
Duration 11h 1m
Set in a Rome riven by religious and political conflicts, Shroud for the Archbishop is the second compelling novel in Peter Tremayne's gripping Celtic mystery series. Wighard, archbishop designate of Canterbury, has been discovered garrotted in his chambers in the Lateran Palace in Rome in the autumn of AD 664. The solution to this terrible crime a...
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Author: Peter Tremayne
Author Peter Tremayne
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 37
Duration 11h 42m
Sister Fidelma and her husband Eadulf are journeying back from the Kingdom of the East Angles to Cashel when a violent storm wrecks their ship on the Isles of Sulis. Seeking shelter, they discover that Lowarn, the ruler of the islands, has been poisoned in an assassination attempt, but who is the culprit? And what are their motives? Lowarn's sister...
View BookAuthor: 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 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 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
Narrator Caroline Lennon
SeriesSister Fidelma Mysteries, Book 13
Duration 11h 57m
A series of horrific murders has brought terror to the Kingdom of Muman. The victims, all young girls, were slaughtered with unspeakable violence on the nights of three consecutive full moons. Suspicion falls on three dark strangers from the distant land of Aksum (Ethiopia), who are guests at the Abbey of Finbarr. A panic-stricken mob attacks the 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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