Ariana Franklin
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In Cambridge, four children have been murdered. Wrongly accused of the crimes, a small community of Jews threatened by Catholic mobs is given sanctuary by Henry II. To assist in proving their innocence, he summons an expert in the science of deduction and the art of death. She is Adelia, a prodigy from the Medical School of Salerno, and an anomaly in a medieval world, who is forced to conceal her identity and her purpose from England's grave superstitions...
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[2015].
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"1141. England is engulfed in war as King Stephen and his cousin, the Empress Matilda, vie for the crown. In this dangerous world, not even Emma, an eleven-year-old peasant, is safe. A depraved monk obsessed with redheads kidnaps the ginger-haired girl from her village and leaves her for dead. When an archer for hire named Gwyl finds her, she has no memory of her previous life. Unable to abandon her, Gwyl takes the girl with him, dressing her as a...
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Adelia Aguilar series volume 2
A Mistress of the Art of Death volume 2
Mistress of the Art of Death novel volume 2
A Mistress of the Art of Death volume 2
Mistress of the Art of Death novel volume 2
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Adelia Aguilar, mistress of the art of death, is summoned, along with Rowley Picot, the Bishop of Saint Albans, by King Henry II to investigate the murder of his mistress, Rosamund Clifford, and to find evidence against the king's estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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2020
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Allie, the daughter of Adelia Aguilar and a skilled healer with her mother's knowledge of anatomy and sleuthing, is dispatched to the Cambridgeshire village of Ely. There her courtship with a young aristocrat is complicated by her investigation into the disappearances of several local girls
7) Grave goods
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Adelia Aguilar series volume 3
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Set in 1176, Franklin's excellent third Mistress of the Art of Death novel (after The Serpent's Tale) finds Adelia Aguilar, a qualified doctor from the School of Medicine in Salerno, in the holy town of Glastonbury, where Henry II has sent her to inspect two sets of bones rumored to be those of Arthur and Guinevere. Henry is hoping that an unequivocally dead Arthur will discourage the rebellious Welsh. The bones have been uncovered by the few monks,...
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Adelia Aguilar series volume 2
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p2008
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Henry II has his wife Eleanor, imprisoned for fear she and their sons will overthrow him. When his mistress is poisoned he sends for Adelia Aguilar to investigate the murder. Eleanor has escaped from prison and someone is trying to frame her for the murder. Adelia saves the queen but learns that she is trying to overthrow the king.