I enjoyed this second installment in the Burren series about a female Brehon, or judge, Mara. This time there are a cascade of murders, one seemingly leading from another. When the murderer doesn't admit to his killing, Mara investigates.
It's a good read but I found the relationship with the king Turlough as distracting as the back cover suggests Mara was with him, it also wasn't really fleshed out all that well, while there were moments where the relationship sparked there were also moments where it just fell a bit flat.
I love the quotations from the different law texts at the beginings of the chapters as well, all of which relate to the plot. I'm not sure that they weren't chosen first rather than afterwards.
