Anybody read Peter Tremayne books?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

The popularity of his Sister Fidelma Mysteries led, in January 2001, to the formation of an International Sister Fidelma Society in Charleston, South Carolina, with a website and a print magazine called The Brehon produced three times a year.[8] A book, entitled The Sister Fidelma Mysteries: Essays on the Historical Novels of Peter Tremayne (MacFarland) was published in 2012, which includes contributions about the series from numerous international authorities.

[angstlessk]

1. Why not give a synopsis of what the story(s) is (are) about?

I do audio books and am always interested in mysteries...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. ok

The Sister Fidelma mysteries are a series of mystery novels and short stories by Peter Tremayne (pseudonym of Peter Berresford Ellis) about a fictional detective who is the eponymous heroine of a series. Fidelma is both a lawyer, or dalaigh, and Celtic religieuse.[1]

Fidelma usually solves crimes in company with her partner (and eventually husband) Brother Eadulf, a Saxon religieux. Though Eadulf has often been compared to Sherlock Holmes' well-meaning but somewhat obtuse Dr. Watson, he usually proves essential to solving the mystery at hand (if only in a small way). A true companion, he has saved Fidelma's life more than once.

The Sister Fidelma stories are set in the middle of the 7th century, mainly in Ireland. They are historical whodunnits in the literary tradition of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose and the Brother Cadfael mysteries by Ellis Peters. Peter Tremayne's novels are extremely complex and usually feature the interaction of several subplots involving political intrigue, personal relationships, religious conflict, or characters' desires for personal or monetary gain.

more at link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Fidelma_mysteries

[angstlessk]

7. Not on Audible.com.....I looked and even called..not there

I hope they get the series soon...

[AudibleClassAction]

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[angstlessk]

15. I never keep track of my Audible credits

and have mostly given them as gifts to a friend...

I will watch out...from now on...and keep your email handy

[Flaxbee]

3. I really enjoyed these books -

I haven't read any in a while and need to catch up; I notice he's published several new ones.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. thanks. I saw one the other day and thought it looked interesting.

Looking for a good series, this one may fit the bill

[Flaxbee]

5. I have to admit I liked the Sister Frevisse ones (Margaret Frazer) better,

not so much for story - the Peter Tremayne characters are very interesting - but writing style.

Have you read anything by Louise Penny? Set in modern-day Quebec, but they're very good mysteries - excellent writing. The first one is "Still Life" -- if you can, try to read them in order b/c there is a lot of character development ...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. I have to have character development so I will be on the look out for those ...

I have fallen way behind on my reading. I used to really enjoy it and then ...

well, let us just say that shit happened and I couldn't read.

It was just gone.

Now, it is coming back.

Thanks, Flaxbee

[Flaxbee]

12. I understand ... sorta there myself, though reading helps me stay sane

I've also liked Deborah Crombie and Margaret Maron for mysteries.

As I said earlier, Louise Penny is very good.

Laugh-out-loud funny (and light) are the Southern Sisters mysteries by Anne George - witty and kind. My sister and I quote them back and forth. "Murder on a Girl's Night Out" is the first one. I don't always think this of authors, but I really wish I'd known Anne George.

Really had fun with A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness.

Early mysteries by Martha Grimes are quite funny; P.D. James is very good, and I *love* the Dorothy Sayers books that include Harriet Vane (Have His Carcase, Strong Poison, Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeymoon).

The author Loren Estleman has been recommended to me, but I haven't read anything by him yet.

Am just reading "Helsinki White" by James Thompson - first chapter, so I don't know yet what I think.

For non-mysteries, Barbara Pym is terrific. Try "Excellent Women" first.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. gosh, Flaxbee ... thank you for this -

treasure trove. really. it is like finding a jewelry box of fine gemstones.

[Aristus]

8. I haven't read his novels or short story collections.

But I have read several Sister Fidelma stories in anthologies of historical mysteries. They were interesting and entertaining, but I prefer mysteries set in Ancient Rome and starring Marcus Didius Falco or Gordianus the Finder.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. authors? series? interesting, thanks.

[Aristus]

10. Sure.

Lindsay Davis is the author of the Falco mysteries. Marcus Didius Falco is a working-class (at first) Private Informer, or PI, to Emperor Vespasian in the early empire period.

Stephen Saylor created Gordianus the Finder, who is a middle-class investigator living in the late Republic period.

Both characters have a long series of novels during which they both see increased personal wealth, increasing families, and growing social rank.

The Falco mysteries are especially amusing for their imitation of the tough, 'Hard-boiled detective" prose of the Dashielle Hammett and Raymond Chandler books.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. I think I read one of the Gordianus the Finder books... years ago

that name and premise is ringing a bell, albeit, faintly.

thanks for recommendations and info.