Sister Fidelma Mystery series #3

In the mid-7th Century AD, a much respected and beloved scholar of the Celtic Church has been found murdered while on a visit to a remote abbey in the Irish Kingdom of Muman. When Dacan's death is used by a neighboring kingdom to demand reparation from Muman, a bloody war seems imminent. Summoned by Muman's dying king to investigate, Sister Fidelma is asked to solve the mystery of the killing and so prevent the inevitable war breaking out between the two opposing kingdoms. She sets out for the remote abbey with a warrior named Cass - and very little time. But there are more sinister forces at work than just political intrigue...