My Lady Judge: A Mystery of Medieval Ireland

ISBN: 0312368364

Title: My Lady Judge: A Mystery of Medieval Ireland

Author: Cora Harrison

KDL Description:

Mara, appointed as judge and lawgiver by King Turlough Don O’Brien, arrives in a small independent kingdom on the west coast of Ireland, a land that lives according to the ancient Celtic laws of their ancestors, to investigate the mysterious death of her assistant during a traditional May Day festival, in a mystery set in sixteenth-century Ireland.

Amazon Description:

In the sixteenth century, as it is now, the Burren, on the western seaboard of Ireland, was a land of gray stone forts, fields of rich green grass, and swirling mountain terraces. It was also home to an independent kingdom that lived peacefully by the ancient Brehon laws of their forebears.

On the first eve of May, 1509, hundreds of people from the Burren climbed the gouged-out limestone terraces of Mullaghmore Mountain to celebrate the great May Day festival, lighting a bonfire and singing and dancing through the night, then returning through the gray dawn to the safety of their homes. But one man did not come back down the steeply spiralling path. His body lay exposed to the ravens and wolves on the bare, lonely mountain for two nights . . . and no one spoke of him, or told what they had seen.

And when Mara, a woman appointed by King Turlough Don O’Brien to be judge and lawgiver to the stony kingdom, came to investigate, she was met with a wall of silence. . . .