Fatal Inheritance, A: A Celtic historical mystery set in 16th century Ireland: 13 (A Burren Mystery) - Tapa blanda

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Harrison, Cora

 
9781847516756: Fatal Inheritance, A: A Celtic historical mystery set in 16th century Ireland: 13 (A Burren Mystery)
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ISBN 10: 1847516750 ISBN 13: 9781847516756
Editorial: Severn House, 2016

Sinopsis

When a woman's body is found strangled and bound with rope to the stone torso of Far Briege, the ancient stone god which stands sentinel above the Atlantic cliffs, the locals believe it was the god who killed her. Ignoring the ancient legends, Mara, Brehon of the Burren, is more concerned to bring a mortal killer to justice.

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Cora Harrison turned to writing historical fiction after she retired from teaching to live on a farm near the Burren in the west of Ireland. As well as the Reverend Mother series, she is the author of the 'Mara' series of Celtic mysteries, set in sixteenth-century Ireland, and the new Gaslight mystery series set in Victorian London.

www.coraharrison.com

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For a moment it looked to Mara as though the figure of the Fár Breige had suddenly come to life. A slight breeze from the Atlantic blew into the valley and stirred some strands from the petrified head of the god – not tightly curled filaments of lichen, but something more impossible, more supernatural. Tresses of real hair, iron-grey in colour, were blowing out from the skull. As Mara came nearer she could see arms clasped around the stone torso. And she could see colour and texture: woven wool dyed in various hues. Previously there had been only dark grey stone but now, in some strange way the stone seemed to have been turned into flesh. The mist was thinner here and allowed her to distinguish clothing – the white linen fringe of a léine, an over-garment of nettle-green, glimpsed from within a faded, multi-coloured cloak, a real head, bowed down, boots half covered with the coarse winter grass. One of the scholars’ ponies gave a high-pitched whinny and even Mara’s well-trained horse rose upon its hind legs, its ears laid back, spooked by the weird sight. She dismounted, feeling rather than seeing her eldest scholar, Domhnall, take the reins from her hand, and walked up the slight slope. The breeze faded away and the sea-mist swirled down again, for a moment shutting out the two figures, but then it lifted and she could see that this was no apparition.The woman who, ten days ago, had laid claim to these ancient lands, to dún, caiseal, cairn and to the spectre-filled caves in Oughtdara, a valley that from time immemorial had been haunted by the ancient wraiths of the Tuatha Dé; this woman now stood in the centre of her property, clasped to the torso of the Fár Breige. Mara reached out and touched the clammy flesh of the woman’s face. Clodagh O’Lochlainn was as stone-cold as the fearsome god, the Fár Breige himself.

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Editorial
Severn House
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1847516750
ISBN 13 
9781847516756
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Número de páginas
208
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