- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd (8 Feb 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 072786873X
- ISBN-13: 978-0727868732
- Product Dimensions: 22 x 14.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 648,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This latest Cora Harrison title lives up to the high standard expected from the author. The plot is well spaced out and the description of Irish life at that time well written. I thoroughly enjoyed this volume and am already eagerly awaiting the next title. Bring it on.
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is the latest in a most enjoyable murder mystery series set in the Burren ,a wild and atmospheric part of South West Ireland in 1510.
The plot has many twists and turns to keep you guessing to the end who is reponsible for the murders that have taken place following a wedding at Lemeanah Castle.These have to be solved by Cora Harrison's charismatic heroine, Mara the Brehon of the Burren.
The vivid descriptions of the windswept Burren and countryside at the edge of the Atlantic and Aran Islands are beautiful and greatly add to atmospheric strength of the story.
The storyline is supported by meticulous research into customs,laws and life in Ireland at that time. This gives a real feeling of being right in among the events of the story and engaged with the characters.Fantastic read!
The plot has many twists and turns to keep you guessing to the end who is reponsible for the murders that have taken place following a wedding at Lemeanah Castle.These have to be solved by Cora Harrison's charismatic heroine, Mara the Brehon of the Burren.
The vivid descriptions of the windswept Burren and countryside at the edge of the Atlantic and Aran Islands are beautiful and greatly add to atmospheric strength of the story.
The storyline is supported by meticulous research into customs,laws and life in Ireland at that time. This gives a real feeling of being right in among the events of the story and engaged with the characters.Fantastic read!
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Another excellent mystery
7 April 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This addition to the Mara, The Brehon mystery series doesn't disappoint. Interesting developments are occurring among the recurring characters. The mystery left me puzzled until the end.
Satisfying Historical Mystery
29 July 2011
Format:Paperback
The Burren's Brehon (and new wife of King Turlough) Mara is faced with yet another perplexing murder when two strangers, who arrived from the Aran Islands to claim kinship with a local noble, Ardal, are found dead outside the cave of Balor. Doubts exist about the kinship but suspicion still focuses on Ardal. Was he afraid of these interlopers enough to kill them? Or is the secret deeper than that? Slowed by her pregnancy and by other problems arising in the community, it takes Mara a while to arrive at the truth.
Though I did enjoy this book, I found it slightly irritating that the answer to the solution was obvious from the beginning but the story was stretched out with the excuse of Mara's pregnancy. However, the plot was kept interesting enough to keep me reading and I did enjoy the idea of a strong female leader existing in medieval Ireland. I also enjoyed the excerpts of Brehon law that Harrison includes at the beginning of each chapter, especially this one:
"Cain Lanamna (Law of Marriage): A woman has a right to bear a child and she may divorce her husband if any failing on his part impedes that right. Divorce may be obtained if the husband is impotent, too fat for intercourse, if he spurns the marriage bed... [or] if he is sterile (and his wife has been fruitful in an earlier marriage.) In the case of sterility, if the husband wishes to retain he wife, she has the right to conceive a child with another man and then to return to her husband. The child must be reared by the husband with all rights and privileges as if it were his own. "
Though I did enjoy this book, I found it slightly irritating that the answer to the solution was obvious from the beginning but the story was stretched out with the excuse of Mara's pregnancy. However, the plot was kept interesting enough to keep me reading and I did enjoy the idea of a strong female leader existing in medieval Ireland. I also enjoyed the excerpts of Brehon law that Harrison includes at the beginning of each chapter, especially this one:
"Cain Lanamna (Law of Marriage): A woman has a right to bear a child and she may divorce her husband if any failing on his part impedes that right. Divorce may be obtained if the husband is impotent, too fat for intercourse, if he spurns the marriage bed... [or] if he is sterile (and his wife has been fruitful in an earlier marriage.) In the case of sterility, if the husband wishes to retain he wife, she has the right to conceive a child with another man and then to return to her husband. The child must be reared by the husband with all rights and privileges as if it were his own. "
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Irish phenom
3 April 2010
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Have read all of her books and look forward to a new one when they come out. The only problem I have is that writers can't seem to write as fast as we can read. Thoroughly enjoy her books, very believable, a true history of Ireland in a mystery story.
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