Title: Don't bother
Product review: The setting, a religious counsel in the year 664 C.E. gathered to debate conflicts between the Church of Ireland and the Church of Rome, promises much. A better story and a better story-teller are needed, however. The characters are paper thin, unconvincing, umsympathethic. The plot becomes entangled in itself and looses coherence. Most distasteful to this reader is the homophobia that underlies the plot. There are two homosexual characters, both unattractively portrayed and, of course, both doomed. I tried this book because I enjoy medieval settings, but this is a series I'll skip. There are much better medieval mysteries available, and one doesn't have to scrape this book from the bottom to get a taste of medieval life.
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