Behold a pale horse
By: Peter Tremayne
Series: A Sister Fidelma mystery
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780755377473
Subjects: Fiction; History; Fidelma, Sister (Fictitious character) Fiction
Description: Sister Fidelma Mystery series #22

(Chronologically between "Shroud for the Archbishop" #2 and "Suffer Little Children" #3.)

AD 664: Sister Fidelma finds herself in the seaport of Genua, en route from Rome back to her native Cashel. Her old teacher, Brother Ruadan, 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 Ruadan 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 ...
Notes: "A Sister Fidelma mystery"--Jacket.