The Dove of Death by Peter Tremayne (2009 hardcover 1st) New

The Dove of Death (Sister Fidelma Mysteries)\nby Peter Tremayne\nThis hardback has been published in the UK in 2009 by Headline Publishing and is a first edition, first impression.\n*\nSummer, AD 670. An Irish merchant ship is attacked by a pirate vesseloff the coast of Bro Waroch, one of the southern kingdoms of the Breton peninsula. Murchad, the captain, and one of his passengers, a prince from the kingdom of Muman named Bressal, are killed in cold blood after they have surrendered. \nAmong the other passengers who manage to escape the slaughter are Sister Fidelma of Cashel and her faithful companion, Brother Eadulf. Safely ashore, a grim task confronts Fidelma. Bressal was her cousin and Murchad had been a friend of long standing. Fidelma is determined to bring the killers to justice, spurred on not only by the fa.