The Leper's Bell (Sister Fidelma Mysteries Book 14)

A servant has been murdered and the baby in her charge abducted. Fidelma of Cashel has solved even more horrendous crimes in her career as an advocate of the ancient Brehon Courts of Ireland. But this case is different. For both Sister Fidelma and her companion, Brother Eadulf of Saxmund's Ham, the case is unique because of the personal emotions involved. The baby who has been abducted is their own son. What is the motive for their crime Could someone seeking vengeance on Fidelma and Eadulf have done the deed They have made a lot of enemies in their pursuit of justice. Fidelma and Eadulf, ignoring protests that they are too emotionally involved to undertake the investigation, set out on an increasingly desperate mission to save their son...

“A brilliant and beguiling heroine. Immensely appealing”

Praise for the Sister Fidelma Series: 'Definitely an Ellis Peters competitor Evening Standard
This is masterly storytelling from an author who breathes fascinating life into the worth he is writing about Belfast Telegraph
A compulsive readable whodunit fronted by one of the most reliably intriguing characters to grace the pages of the genre Booklist
Tremayne's super-sleuth is a vibrant creation Morgan Llywelyn
Publishers Weekly

Peter Tremayne is the fiction pseudonym of a well-known authority on the ancient Celts, who has utilised his knowledge of the Brehon law system and 7th-Century Irish society to create a new concept in detective fiction.

A servant has been murdered and the baby in her charge abducted. Fidelma of Cashel has solved even more horrendous crimes in her career as an advocate of the ancient Brehon Courts of Ireland. But this case is different. For both Sister Fidelma and her companion, Brother Eadulf of Saxmund's Ham, the case is unique because of the personal emotions involved. The baby who has been abducted is their own son. What is the motive for their crime Could someone seeking vengeance on Fidelma and Eadulf have done the deed They have made a lot of enemies in their pursuit of justice. Fidelma and Eadulf, ignoring protests that they are too emotionally involved to undertake the investigation, set out on an increasingly desperate mission to save their son...

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