Deed of Murder (2011)

by Cora Harrison

Series: Burren Mysteries (7)

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Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML: The enthralling new Burren mystery . . . April 1511, Ireland. Mara, Brehon of the Burren, 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 on a lone mountain pass with suspicious wounds. He was carrying an important legal document that has now disappeared. But why did he choose to deliver it during the night, and what of the two other missing students? Mara must uncover the truth � and it at first seems that the stolen deed holds all the answers . . . .… (more)

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The valley hung high on the mountain slope. On either side reared the silvery heights of bare limestone, but the hollowed area itself was intensely green. Mara dismounted from her horse, handed the reins to twelve year old Shane, the youngest scholar at her law school, and looked around her with a smile of pleasure. As Brehon of the Burren, judge and law giver in that stony kingdom on the Atlantic fringe of Ireland, she knew and loved every one of its hundred square miles, but coming to the valley of the flax garden always had the thrill of discovering buried treasure.

taurus27 | Dec 17, 2024 |

An excellent continuation of a fine series. A seemingly straightforward murder investigation evolves into a deftly plotted and for medieval Ireland, quite Byzantine, political situation. (

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Deed of Murder

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2011

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Mara, Brehon of the Burren

Turlough Donn O'Brien, King of Burren

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The Burren, County Clare, Ireland

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For my son, William, with much love and thanks

for all his assistance while I was writing this book.

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The valley hung high on the mountain slope. (prologue)

Fiona MacBetha disappeared just before midnight at the official christening part for Cormac, the baby son of King Turlough Donn O'Brien and his wife Mara.

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Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:

The enthralling new Burren mystery . . . April 1511, Ireland. Mara, Brehon of the Burren, 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 on a lone mountain pass with suspicious wounds. He was carrying an important legal document that has now disappeared. But why did he choose to deliver it during the night, and what of the two other missing students? Mara must uncover the truth � and it at first seems that the stolen deed holds all the answers . . .

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