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Sister Fidelma is a fictional amateur detective, the eponymous heroine of a series by Irish author Peter Tremayne.
She is a religieuse of irish-catholic faith, but received also training in both criminal and civil law, especially the brehon laws, being a dalaigh to the Brehon Court of Ireland, attaining the rank of anruth.
The 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.
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