A MASS FOR THE DEAD. A MUIRTEACH MACPHEE MYSTERY - Tecno-Libro

Scotland 1373: Crispinus, the head of Oronsay Priory, is found dead, strangled and battered, his mouth stuffed with sand, in the middle of the tidal strand separating the holy island of Oronsay from the larger island of Colonsay. The Lord of the isles, overlord of the islands, assigns the task of finding the killer to Muirteach, the Prior s bastard son. . . . . . . . . . . . Since breaking with his father and leaving the monastery, Muirteach has spent his time acting as scribe for his uncle, an island chieftain. . Muirteach s father, a powerful churchman, leaves behind a mistress and several other bastards as well as his embittered eldest son, who is thankful he will never hear the words, My bastard son, the cripple again. . . . . . . . . . . . . As Muirteach seeks to find his father s murderer he is helped by the physician Fearchar Beaton, and his daughter Mario