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In mid-seventh-century Ireland, Sister Fidelma of Cashel-sister to the Ruler of Muman, an advocate of Brehon Courts, and religieuse of the Celtic Church-returns hastily from a pilgrimage to the Shrine of St. James. The news headlines that brings her back again is that her associate and good friend, the Saxon monk Brother Eadulf, is under arrest for a serious offense in the neighboring kingdom of Laigin. Traveling furiously through hostile place, she occurs only to find out she is too late. Eadulf was already attempted and found guilty of the murder of a girl. A whole lot worse, Laigin's king has abandoned the traditional judicial code of Ireland in favor of the ecclesiastical Penitential from Rome - and under this code he is to be performed the following morning. Convinced that her good friend is innocent, Fidelma has only twenty-four time before his execution to create information persuasive enough to sway the king into allowing an appeal of Eadulf's conviction. Facing a king established to make an example of Eadulf and an old adversary of her own, Fidelma soon realizes that there is nothing as it was portrayed, and behind the heinous offense is an even more surprising conspiracy. Now, Fidelma must unravel her most perplexing puzzle before time works out on her behalf closest companion.
