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“Once again, Cora Harrison brings sixteenth-century Ireland beautifully to life and her Brehon detective, Mara, is a fantastic protagonist—an absolute one-off and yet refreshingly real.” —The Historical Novel Society on A Secret and Unlawful Killing (Editors’ Choice)

The year is 1509 and autumn has come to the Burren in western Ireland. It’s a time of harvest and preparation for the winter to come—the end of summer and, for some, the end of life. When Mara attends the funeral of a local priest of the Burren, the last thing she expects to discover is another corpse on the church steps—a man stung to death by bees.

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“Once again, Cora Harrison brings sixteenth-century Ireland beautifully to life and her Brehon detective, Mara, is a fantastic protagonist—an absolute one-off and yet refreshingly real.” —The Historical Novel Society on A Secret and Unlawful Killing (Editors’ Choice)

The year is 1509 and autumn has come to the Burren in western Ireland. It’s a time of harvest and preparation for the winter to come—the end of summer and, for some, the end of life. When Mara attends the funeral of a local priest of the Burren, the last thing she expects to discover is another corpse on the church steps—a man stung to death by bees.

Sorley, the silversmith, was a greedy and distrusted man: there would be no shortage of people who wanted him dead. But who really stood to profit from his murder? As Mara investigates, she must use all her cunning and prowess as a judge to bring the sting of justice to a killer with a hate-filled heart and a murderous mind.

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Harrison's stellar third novel set in the Irish kingdom of Burren (after 2008's A Secret and Unlawful Killing) blends a fair-play murder puzzle with a convincing portrayal of early 16th-century Ireland. Series heroine Mara, the region's brehon (or judge), is responsible for maintaining law and order and for running the local law school. While attending the funeral mass for a beloved local priest, Mara discovers the body of Sorley Skerrett, one of the richest men in the area, who owns a silver mine. Skerrett, who was allergic to bee stings, died as a result of being stung by a swarm of the insects. Despite appearances, Mara believes the death was a homicide and enlists her eager students to aid her in interviewing the many suspects, who include the victim's ex-wife, the son he disinherited and others wronged by his unscrupulous business dealings. Ellis Peters and Peter Tremayne fans who have yet to discover Harrison will be overjoyed. (Dec.)\
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It's 1509 in western Ireland, and Mara O'Davoren, Brehon (our equivalent of a judge) of the Burren, is attending the funeral of a local priest when Sorley, a silversmith and the wealthiest man in the region, is killed by multiple bee stings. Following a few clues left at the scene and investigating a rich array of possible suspects, Mara brings the case to a satisfactory conclusion with the help of her capable law students. VERDICT With her third series title (after A Secret and Unlawful Killing), Irish author Harrison is a writer to watch. Her depictions of 16th-century Ireland and little-known Celtic law are thoroughly researched and beautifully presented. For fans of Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma series and readers who love Sharon Kay Penman and Philippa Gregory.\
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Brehon Mara O'Davoren, judge and scholar, solves her third mystery in the west of Ireland in 1509. Sixteenth-century Irish law is surprisingly egalitarian and complex, governing all aspects of life from marriage and inheritance to the keeping of bees. Brehon Mara (A Secret and Unlawful Killing, 2008, etc.) has the task of ruling on and enforcing those laws for the communities of the Burren. English law applies as well to outsiders like Welshman Sorley Skerrett, whose dangerous silver mine has made him the richest and least popular man in the kingdom. When a man so ostentatious and disagreeable drops dead, Mara is suspicious, even though he died of bee stings. Who knew the silversmith reacted so badly to bees? And who could have pushed the fatal hive onto him? Plenty of people have motives: Una, his daughter and presumptive heir; Rory, her lazy but ambitious fiance; Deirdre, Sorley's estranged wife; Cuan, his seemingly simple son; Daire, his cheated apprentice; and Sheedy, whose farm abuts Sorley's mine and whose cows are dying from its effects. With the help of her spirited young legal students, Mara inquires into Sorley's death, matchmaking and setting old grievances right as she goes, bringing harmony to the Burren, a land of deep green grasses and hazy mountains as patchily purple as Harrison's prose. Even so, the puzzle is enjoyable, providing intriguing insight into medieval Irish justice.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312372699
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 11/24/2009
  • Pages: 355
  • Series: Mysteries of Medieval Ireland Series
  • Product dimensions: 6.42 (w) x 9.62 (h) x 1.22 (d)

Meet the Author

Cora Harrison lives in the Burren in the west of Ireland, an area whose landscape and history form the background to a medieval series of which this is the third novel. She has published twenty-six books for children, mainly dealing with Irish history and mythology. Please visit her Web site at www.coraharrison.com.

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    Cora Harrison provides another strong historical murder investigation as this series is one of the sub-genre's best.

    In the Kingdom of Burren in western Ireland in the year 1509, the land is rich with minerals especially silver washing out of the mountain and free for anyone who sees it. That is until Sorley Skerrett the avaricious silversmith bought the land and opened a silver mine. Over the decades that mine became a festering sore spot on the once pristine mountainside. Now affluent and influential, he is petty and spiteful with many angry enemies who want to spit on his grave.

    While sitting in a room in the church he attended, someone crashes a hive through the window to the floor. Allergic to the venom, Sorley dies immediately. Mara the Brehon of the Burren rules it murder and she starts an investigation. She finds many suspects as the victim was universally detested by those he destroyed with his unethical business ventures. Perhaps those who hate him more are those who had the misfortune of being in his personal life like his ex wife. Everyone had the opportunity as Mara finds she has a lot of work ahead to sift through this case.

    Although almost a millennia in the past, fans of Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma Ancient Irish mysteries will want to read this terrific medieval whodunit as the legal system has evolved from the seventh century to the sixteenth. Mara is terrific as the only LADY JUDGE in Ireland looking into A SECRET AND UNLAWFUL KILLING again. The support cast is three dimensional as they bring time and place alive. The official inquiry is well done as Mara slowly works her way to the killer. Cora Harrison provides another strong historical murder investigation as this series is one of the sub-genre's best.

    Harriet Klausner

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