Act of Mercy: A Celtic Mystery
Tremayne provides another authentically detailed installment in his exquisitely crafted Sister Fidelma series. As Sister Fidelma, religieuse and prominent advocate of the Brehon Courts in seventh-century Ireland, travels by sea to the Shrine of Saint James on the Iberian Peninsula, a series of unfortunate accidents begin to plague her fellow pilgrims. When it becomes apparent that a distorted brand of obsessive love is the primary motive for the murders, Fidelma must exercise her keen powers of observation to expose a homicidal maniac among a seemingly pious group of clerics. Firmly entrenched in the astonishingly fertile historical milieu of the early Middle Ages, this decidedly literate and intelligent whodunit will appeal to the same school of demanding fans of period mysteries that relish the novels of Ellis Peters.Margaret FlanaganCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved