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Review Season: Absolution by Murder by Peter Tremayne - 2022 5th Place
Death of the Reader
English - January 10, 2023 23:00 - 6 minutes - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsArts Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In fifth place this Review Season, Herds takes us back to a simpler time, one where Saxons roamed the countryside and the black plague was the hottest new piece of goss on the market. That novel is Absolution by Murder, authored by Peter Tremayne as the first entry in the Sister Fidelma series. Not just a piece of historical fiction, but also written by acclaimed Celtic scholar Peter Berresford Ellis. The story takes place at a real event that happened to real people, and mixes in fictional with non-fictional characters in order to create not only an entertaining tour of the Abbey of Whitby in 664AD but also to entice fellow historians with a piece of speculative fiction around the infamous Synod of Whitby wherein the Christian churches of Celtic and Roman peoples were forced to reconcile.