Anna S. (annapi) reviewed on 1/2/2010 + 334 more book reviews

This book picks up immediately where the previous left off, with the news of the murder of the nurse of Fidelma and Eadulf's son Alchu, who is now missing and feared kidnapped or worse. The only significant clue to the disappearance of their baby is the mysterious leper dwarf that they must now find and question. To complicate matters, Fidelma still has to sort through unresolved feelings of depression that cause her to clash with Eadulf and doubt the wisdom of their remaining together as the year and a day of their trial marriage comes to a close. This is one of the more convoluted mysteries within mysteries that Tremayne has penned, and he keeps the tension ratcheted up high, with the added threat of trouble with warriors of the neighboring kingdom who may have kidnapped the child for political purposes. Fidelma and Eadulf are astute as ever, and I enjoyed that Eadulf was given a bigger role in solving the mystery than he usually has. Tremayne can score another notch on his belt, and I'm looking forward to the next book.

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