Peter Berresford Ellis è uno storico e biografo letterario di spicco, riconosciuto come un'autorità in materia di storia e cultura celtica. Sotto vari pseudonimi, in particolare come Peter Tremayne, ha creato avvincenti narrazioni storiche e serie di mistero di successo internazionale. La sua opera è caratterizzata da una profonda immersione nei contesti storici e da una vivida rappresentazione del passato. Ellis porta magistralmente alla vita l'intricato mondo delle antiche società celtiche, attraendo i lettori con la sua acuta perspicacia accademica e la sua abilità narrativa.
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?