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A historical mileau provides a fresh background for this competent but unexceptional mystery with a likable but occasionally overbearing protagonist.
Reviewed by David on May 13, 2004
Genre: Mystery (Historical)
Synopsis: In Sixth Century Ireland the young Sister Fidelma carries the prestige of a fine education and a growing reputation as a Brehon, a judge, skilled in investigation of crimes. Therefore, she is sent to the Abbey of the Three Salmon when a murdered woman is found in the abbey's well. There, she finds a number of people filled with very unreligious motives, full of suspicious secrets. But was the crime the result of passion or politics?
Copyright: 1996
Overall: 5.5; Plot: 5.5; Characters: 6; Style: 5.5; World-building: 6; Originality: 6;
New American Library (Signet), October 1999, Mass-market paperback, 301 pages
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