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The Seventh Trumpet (2012)

by Peter Tremayne(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0755377508 (ISBN13: 9780755377503)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Headline Book Publishing

series

Sister Fidelma

review 1: Fans of the series following the adventures of Fidelma of Cashel and her husband, Eadulf, in 7th Century Ireland will be pleased with the latest in the series by Peter Tremayne. The Kingdom of Muman (Munster) is under threat of an insurrection by a local warlord acting as a religious leader. Fidelma is kidnapped and almost loses her life before Eadulf and companions rescue her. Except for trying to keep up with the unfamiliar ancient Irish place names and names of the characters, I was caught up trying to untangle the plot along with Fidelma, defeat the rebel forces, save her brother the King, and restore peace to Muman. A more political novel than those before, but still an interesting window on life in an ancient world on the fringes of the world, far from ... moreRome.
review 2: Holy cow! This is the 23rd book in the series. Ireland in the 7th century was a vey dangerous place. There's always someone who wants to overthrow the rightful king and everywhere that Fidelma goes the bodies accumulate. She travels to investigate a body discovered near Cashel. A drunken cleric is killed. Fidelma is captured and left for dead with an unfortunate young man who was forced to help row a boat up river. Fidelma and Eadulf are riding around the countryside in search of answers. Everyone is suspicious of everyone else and many lies are told to Fidelma. Suddenly Colgú's fiancé and her father turn up at the castle where Fidelma and Eadulf have returned to for the third time. Drón, the father of Colgú's fiancé is murdered. Then the crazy woman Étain is murdered. She is revealed as the mother of Colgú's fiancé. The power hungry Cronán is killed when Colgú's men raid his fortress using secret passages for entrance. As Fidelma is explaining that the fourth member of the conspirators was her cousin (who was also the foster son of Drón), Ailill kills himself. Colgú's fiancé takes her father's body for burial in the family plot but Colgú doesn't accompany her. Turns out she was pregnant with Ailill's child and Colgú has broken the engagement. So that's 7 of the named characters murdered in a period of less than a week and that doesn't count any of the men raiding villages with Étain or any of the villagers killed by Étain's men or those of Cronán. Like I said - a very dangerous place less

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