Peter Tremayne has 29 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 1 narrator, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 37 ratings. The most-rated is Absolution by Murder.
Atonement of Blood
Summary
Super sleuth Sister Fidelma returns in the 24th historical mystery by Peter Tremayne, acclaimed author of The Seventh Trumpet, The Subtle Serpent and many more.
Winter, AD 670. King Colgú has invited the leading nobles and chieftains of his kingdom to a feast day. The gathering is interrupted by a religieux claiming that he has an important message for the King. Suddenly, the man, shouting, 'Remember Liamuin!' stabs King Colgú. The assassin is slain, but Colgú is on the verge of death.
Who is Liamuin? Is it a female name? Who is behind the assassination attempt? Colgú's lawyer sister, Fidelma of Cashel, and her companion, Brother Eadulf, are charged with solving the mystery.
They must journey into the territory of their archenemies, the Uí Fidgente, uncover the evil secrets in the dark, brooding Abbey of Mungairit and venture into the threatening mountain fastness ruled by a godless tyrant. Danger and violence are their constant companions until the final devastating revelation.
©2013 Peter Tremayne (P)2013 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
The Dove of Death
Summary
Super sleuth Sister Fidelma returns in the 20th historical mystery by Peter Tremayne, acclaimed author of The Council of the Cursed, Dancing with Demons and many more. AD 670. An Irish merchant ship is attacked by a pirate vessel off the coast of the Breton peninsular. Murchad, the captain, and a prince from the kingdom of Muman are killed in cold blood after they have surrendered. Among the other passengers who manage to escape the slaughter are Sister Fidelma of Cashel and her faithful companion, Brother Eadulf. The prince was Fidelma's cousin, and she is determined to bring the killers to justice....
©2009 Peter Tremayne (P)2009 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
Behold a Pale Horse
Summary
Filled with murder and conspiracy, Behold a Pale Horse is the brilliant 22nd novel in the gripping Sister Fidelma series by the internationally best-selling author Peter Tremayne. AD 664: Sister Fidelma finds herself in the seaport of Genua, en route from Rome back to her native Cashel. Her old teacher, Brother Ruadán, lies dying in the abbey of Bobium - an isolated abbey in a disturbed country where even the Christians are in bloody conflict with one another and the worship of the pagan gods often prevails. Fidelma is determined to see Brother Ruadán before he dies. But from the moment she enters the beautiful valley of the Trebbia, there is danger on every side. Her dying teacher's last words send her off on her most dangerous adventure where murder follows murder and a vicious civil war threatens before an extraordinary conspiracy is revealed. And from the start, Fidelma is on her own....
©2011 Peter Tremayne (P)2011 Soundings
Bloodmoon
Summary
Sister Fidelma returns in Bloodmoon, the 29th Celtic mystery by Peter Tremayne, acclaimed author of Penance of the Damned and Night of the Lightbringer. If you love Ellis Peters, you'll be gripped by Bloodmoon and the Sister Fidelma series. Ireland. AD 671. Sister Fidelma has a mission, and she is sworn by oath to reveal her purpose to no other. The secret investigation leads Fidelma and her companions to the abbey of Finnbarr to question the abbot. But before they have a chance to speak to him, the abbot is found murdered - and the young girl suspected of the crime has fled the scene. Despite their protests, Fidelma's cohorts agree to accompany her in pursuit of the girl for answers. But as vicious rumours spread, accusing Fidelma's family, the Eóghanacht Kings of Cashel, of conspiring to assassinate the High King and abduct his wife, Sister Fidelma's life is placed in mortal danger. Unable to tell the truth of her quest to anyone, including her husband, Eadulf, Fidelma's time is running out - and now she has no choice but to face the challenge, and her enemies, alone.
©2018 Peter Tremayne (P)2018 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
The Seventh Trumpet
Summary
Sister Fidelma returns in another gripping Celtic mystery by Peter Tremayne, acclaimed author of The Subtle Serpent, Suffer Little Children and many more. Ireland, AD 670. When the body of a murdered young noble is discovered not far from Cashel, the King calls upon Sister Fildema and her companion Eadulf to investigate. The only clue to the noble's identity is an emblem originating from the nearby kingdom of Laign. Could the murder be somehow related to the violence erupting in the west of the kingdom? The turmoil is led by a fanatical figure claiming to have been summoned by 'the seventh angel' to remove the 'impure of faith' from the land, and Fidelma and Eadulf soon find themselves struggling with a tangled skein of murder and intrigue. What is the mystery that connects the dead noble, a murdered alcoholic priest, and a menacing abbot who has built his abbey into a military fortress? When Sister Fidelma herself becomes the victim of abduction, it is up to Eadulf to find and save her from imminent death, so that the mystery can be solved.
©2012 Peter Tremayne (P)2012 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
Our Lady of Darkness
Summary
Peter Tremayne, highly acclaimed author of Hemlock at Vespers and Act of Mercy, presents Our Lady of Darkness, the 10th gripping Celtic mystery featuring super-sleuth Sister Fidelma.
Arriving home from a pilgrim voyage, Sister Fidelma hears that her faithful Saxon companion, Brother Eadulf, is under sentence of death for murder. She hastens to the capital of Laigin, where he is being held, determined to appeal against the sentence. The crime took place at the abbey of Fearna, where Fidelma clashes with the sinister Abbess Fainder. The evidence against Eadulf seems overwhelming - can he actually be guilty? Will Fidelma's emotional involvement blind her in her desperate search for the truth?
©2000 Peter Tremayne (P)2000 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
The Monk Who Vanished
Summary
Super sleuth Sister Fidelma returns in The Monk Who Vanished, the seventh historical mystery by Peter Tremayne, acclaimed author of Valley of The Shadow, The Spider's Web and many more.
The Abbey of Imleach, in the southwest Irish kingdom of Muman, now rivals Armagh as the centre of the faith in Ireland. For the founder of the abbey was none other than St Ailbe, the man who brought Christianity to Muman, converted its king and baptised him at Cashel in AD 448.
But now, calamity has struck the community of the abbey. Not only has an elderly monk suddenly disappeared, but the holy relics of St Ailbe have also vanished. These sacred relics are not just the concern of the abbey's community but are a priceless icon and political symbol of the entire kingdom. So who would have dared to take them?
Sister Fidelma, together with Saxon Brother Eadulf, are asked to investigate. It seems there is more to the disappearances than meets the eye - much more. Fidelma gradually uncovers a sinister conspiracy in which the participants will stop at nothing - even murder - to achieve their aims.
©1999 Peter Tremayne (P)1999 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
Valley of the Shadow
Summary
Super-sleuth Sister Fidelma faces personal danger as she proceeds through the valley of the shadow in the stunning sixth historical mystery by Peter Tremayne.
Sister Fidelma has been sent by her brother, king of Cashel, to Laisre, chieftain of Gleann Geis - the 'forbidden valley' - to negotiate permission to build a Christian church and school in his territory, replacing the pagan Druidic sanctuaries. Laisre is known to be hostile to the new religion, and Fidelma knows her mission will be no easy task.
Entering Gleann Geis with the Saxon Brother Eadulf, she comes across the naked, slain bodies of 33 young men, positioned in a sunwise circle. Each body bears the marks of stabbing and garrotting; every skull has been smashed. Who is responsible for such evil, if not the heathen Laisre?
©1998 Peter Tremayne (P)2015 Audible, Inc.
The Haunted Abbot
Summary
Super sleuth Sister Fidelma returns in The Haunted Abbot, the 12th historical mystery by Peter Tremayne, acclaimed author of Smoke in the Wind, Our Lady of Darkness and many more. As they are preparing to return to Ireland, Fidelma and Brother Eadulf receive a mysterious summons. Eadulf's childhood friend, Brother Botulf, has requested their presence at Aldred's Abbey at midnight on the old pagan feast of Yule. Fidelma and Eadulf battle against the harsh winter storms to arrive in time, only to find they are too late. Botulf is dead - killed by an unknown hand. As they struggle to comprehend this staggering news, it soon becomes clear that the murder of this young monk is not the only trouble facing the abbey. The abbey is haunted by the ghost of a young woman - a woman some say bears a startling likeness to the Abbot Cild's dead wife. But can Fidelma and Eadulf discover the truth before they themselves fall victim to the danger which pervades the abbey walls?
©2002 Peter Tremayne (P)2015 Audible, Inc