Mara, Brehon of the Burren, must battle superstitious beliefs and fears as she sets out to solve a brutal murder.When a womans body is discovered, strangled and bound with rope to the stone torso of Far Breige, the ancient stone god which stands sentinel above the haunted caves and ancient fortifications of the Atlantic cliffs, the locals believe it was the god who killed her.In life, Clodagh OLochlainn had been a disgrace to her clan, tormenting her former priestly lover, jeering at her husband, robbing her relatives but could she really have been slaughtered by a vengeful god, as the local population believes? Abandoning preparations for the celebration of her fiftieth birthday, Mara, Brehon of the Burren, with the assistance of Fachtman and her scholars, takes up the task of solving the murder.
