Burren mysteries

Mara, the Burren's Brehon Judge, must investigate the death of the MacNamara clan steward, who just raised the cost of tribute before his death, and a possible link to an alleged suicide that happens days later.

A Mystery of Medieval Ireland
Christmas, 1510; the Burren, West coast of Ireland. Mara, Brehon of the Burren, has accepted the offer of marriage made by King Turlough Donn O'Brien, ruler of that tiny kingdom of stony land and terraced mountains on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. The marriage is planned to take place at the Cistercian Abbey on Christmas Day. But, on the eve of the marriage festivities, a man kneeling in prayer...

After unexpectantly going into labor and giving birth to a son, Mara is alterted to a new case when the local physician, Malachy, is found dead and she must determine if his new wife and children are responsible for his death.

Mara, Brehon of the Burren, visits Galway with her pupils where they sit in on a hearing for a poor man who faces death for stealing a meat pie, and Mara investigates a case in which the mayor's son is accused of a terrible crime.

When fire destroys an important relic in Kilnaboy Church and then the pilgrim who confessed to the crime is murdered, Mara and her law students set out to discover how he was killed and the murderer's identity.

When Mara finds a dead man lying in a boat with no oars, her scholars jump to the conclusion that the man has been found guilty of kin-murder, but Mara notices something odd and embarks on a full-scale murder investigation.

It was a macabre ending for an unjust judge: his throat slit by a sharp knife; his body stuffed into a lobster pot and left beneath a powerful jet of water shooting up through the cliffs from the turbulent Atlantic. When Mara, Brehon of the nearby kingdom of the Burren, comes to investigate, she knows that her first suspects have to be the five young men who had received such savage sentences for minor crimes.