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The Haunted Abbot (Sister Fidelma, Bk 12)
The Haunted Abbot - Sister Fidelma, Bk 12 Author:Peter Tremayne In December of 666 A.D., Fidelma of Cashel and her companion Brother Eadulf, having completed their business with the Archbishop of Canterbury, make one final journey before returning to Ireland. At the insistence of Brother Botulf, a childhood friend of Eadulf, they detour from their trip to Eadulf's home village and make their way to Aldre... more »d's Abbey. Arriving at midnight on the night of the old pagan festival of Yule, as requested, they find Botulf's dead body -- his head caved in by a blunt instrument.
As Fidelma and Eadulf soon learn, however, murder isn't the only danger which faces those in the abbey. The ghost of a young woman haunts the cloister shadows, a ghost which closely resembles the Abbot's dead wife. Now it will require all of Fidelma's skill as an advocate of the Brehon Courts to unravel the mystery and uncover the truth behind these events before those secrets take yet another life.« less
While I certainly enjoyed this book, as I do most of Tremayne's novels, this was another one 'solved' according to his formula. By this I mean that Sister Fidelma assembles all the characters together at the end to relate how she solved who the guilty parties are.
And it wasn't hard to figure out one of the reasons for the murders, as that 'reason' has become quite common in this series.
Initially, Sister Fidelma was out of action with a fever, and Brother Eadulf was leading the investigation. I thought it was about time he had his "day in the sun." But then Fidelma got better and took over.
Also, fans of this pair will be somewhat shocked at the very end.