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"When a woman's body is discovered, strangled and bound with rope to the stone torso of F©Łr Breige, the ancient stone god which stands sentinel above the haunted caves and ancient fortifications of the Atlantic cliffs, the locals believe it was the god who killed her. In life, Clodagh O'Lochlainn had been a disgrace to her clan, tormenting her former priestly lover, jeering at her husband, robbing her relatives: but could she really have been slaughtered...
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
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It was a macabre ending for an unjust judge: his throat slit by a sharp knife; his body stuffed into a lobster pot and left beneath a powerful jet of water shooting up through the cliffs from the turbulent Atlantic. When Mara, Brehon of the nearby kingdom of the Burren, comes to investigate, she knows that her first suspects have to be the five young men who had received such savage sentences for minor crimes.
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Series
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When Mara, Brehon of the Burren, is summoned to a sandy beach on the western fringe of the kingdom of the Burren, she sees a sight that she has never witnessed before during her thirty years as law-enforcer: a dead body lying in a boat with no oars. Immediately her scholars jump to the conclusion that the person has been found guilty of kin-murder. The Brehon sentence for this worst of all crimes is that the murderer be towed out to sea and left...
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
April 1511: Mara is celebrating the christening of her son when she notices that three of her law students have disappeared from the party. The next morning one of them is found dead, and the other two, along with an important legal document, are missing
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In 1510 Ireland, a great feast is being held. Into a crowd listening to the story of Balor, the one-eyed god, come two strangers. The younger of the two, Iarla, bears a letter that claims that the wealthy Ardal O'Lochlainn is his true father, which Ardal vociferously denies. So when Iarla is found dead, with one eye missing, some think he was killed by the god--but most suspect Ardal. Mara, the Brehon--or lawgiver--of the Burren, is called to investigate....
Author
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
June, 1510: the Burren, west coast of Ireland - Upon going unexpectedly into an early labour, Mara is alerted to the disappearance of Malachy, the local physician. Mystery follows birth, as shortly after the entrance of her son into the world the body of Malachy is discovered. But who stands to profit from this death and who therefore are Mara's lead suspects? For starters there is Malachy's new wife and her two sons, not to mention the very daughter...
Author
Series
Burren mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
September, 1517: when fire destroys the famous relic of the Holy Cross in Kilnaboy church and then a pilgrim is found murdered, it is up to Mara, as Brehon of the Burren, and her law students, to find out who did such a thing - and why.
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Language
English
Description
Mara the Brehon investigates the death of a clan leader in this historical mystery set in sixteenth-century Ireland by the acclaimed author of Laws in Conflict.
In the western Irish kingdom of Burren, Mara is an investigating magistrate charged with upholding the ancient laws. When the leader of clan MacNamara dies under suspicious circumstances, she is called upon to determine truth from lies among conflicting reports.
Garrett MacNamara's body...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
February, 1512. Mara, Brehon of the Burren, judge and lawgiver, has been invited to the city state of Galway, which is ruled by English laws and a royal charter originally granted by Richard III. Mara wonders whether she can use her legal knowledge to save the life of a man from the Burren who's been caught stealing a meat pie, but events soon take an even more dramatic turn when the mayor's son is charged with a heinous crime.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First St. Martin's Minotaur edition.
Language
English
Description
Mara, the Burren's Brehon Judge, must investigate the death of the MacNamara clan steward, who just raised the cost of tribute before his death, and a possible link to an alleged suicide that happens days later.
11) Writ in stone
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First world edition.
Language
English
Description
A Mystery of Medieval Ireland -" ""Christmas, 1509." Mara, the investigating judge of the Burren, has accepted the offer of marriage made by King Turlough. But on the eve of the marriage festivities, a man kneeling in prayer in the abbey church is violently murdered. Who could have planned to kill the king? Cut off from the outside world by heavy snow, Mara must act quickly to catch the assassin before a second death occurs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1509 and autumn has come to western Ireland. When Mara attends the funeral of a local priest, the last thing she expects to discover is a corpse on the church steps. As Mara investigates, she is determined to bring a killer to justice.
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