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by Peter Tremayne


  Irél, commander of the Fianna, bodyguards to the High King

  Erc the Speckled, a warrior of the Fianna

  Cuan, a warrior of the Fianna

  Lugna, a warrior of the Fianna

  Mer the Demented

  Iceadh the Healer, physician to the High King

  Brónach, chief female servant

  Báine, a maid

  Cnucha, a maid

  Torpach, a cook

  Maoláin, his assistant

  Duirnín, a servant

  Assíd, a slave

  Verbas of Peqini, his master and a merchant

  Bishop Luachan of Delbna Mór

  Brother Céin, his steward

  Brother Diomasach, a scribe

  Brother Manchán of Baile Fobhair

  Ardgal, chief of the Cinél Cairpre

  Beorhtric, a Saxon warrior

  AD669: Iar mbeith cúicc bliadhna ós Érinn h-i righe do Sechnussach mac Blaithmaic, do-cear la Dubh Duin, flaith Ceneoil Coibre. As for Sechnussach do-athadh an teistimen-si:

  Ba srianach, ba h-eachlascach

  In teach h-i mbidh Sechnussach

  Ba h-imdha fuigheall for slaitt

  h-istaigh i mbidh mac Blathmaic

  Annála Rioghachta Éireann

  AD669: After Sechnussach, son of Blathmac, had been five years in sovereignty over Ireland, he was slain by Dubh Duin, chief of Cinél Cairpre. It was of Sechnussach that this testimony was given:

  Full of bridles and horsewhips

  Was the house in which dwelt Sechnussach.

  Many were the results of his tributes

  In the house in which dwelt the son of Blathmac.

  Annals of the Kings of Ireland

  BOOKS BY PETER TREMAYNE IN THE SISTER FIDELMA OF CASHEL SERIES

  NOVELS

  Absolution by Murder

  Shroud for the Archbishop

  Suffer Little Children

  The Subtle Serpent

  The Spider’s Web

  Valley of the Shadow

  The Monk Who Vanished

  Act of Mercy

  Our Lady of Darkness

  Smoke in the Wind

  The Haunted Abbot

  Badger’s Moon

  The Leper’s Bell

  Master of Souls

  A Prayer for the Damned

  Dancing with Demons

  The Council of the Cursed

  STORY COLLECTIONS

  Hemlock at Vespers

  Whispers of the Dead

  Notes

  1 ‘The High King’s Sword’ in Hemlock at Vespers (1999)

  2 See ‘Hemlock at Vespers’ in Hemlock at Vespers (1999)

  3 See ‘The High King’s Sword’ and ‘A Scream from the Sepulchre’ in Hemlock at Vespers (1999)

  4 Valley of the Shadow (1998)

  5 See The Leper’s Bell (2004)

  6 A Prayer for the Damned (2006)

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  DANCING WITH DEMONS. Copyright © 2007 by Peter Tremayne. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

  www.minotaurbooks.com

  First published in Great Britain by Headline Publishing Group, a division of Hachette Livre UK Ltd

  eISBN 9781429952361

  First eBook Edition : March 2011

  The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

  Tremayne, Peter.

  Dancing with demons : a mystery of ancient Ireland / Peter Tremayne.—1st

  U.S. ed.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 978-0-312-37564-5

  1. Ireland—History—To 1172—Fiction. I. Title.

  PR6070.R366D33 2008

  823’.914—dc22

  2008025760

  ISBN 978-0-312-58741-3 (trade paperback)

  First Minotaur Books Paperback Edition: November 2009

 

 

 


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