Mistress of the Art of Death Novel Mistress of the Art of Death, (Paperback)

from loriephillips

The year is 1171, and four children have been brutally murdered in the town of Cambridge, England, by a sadistic predator. Their deaths have been blamed on a small community of Jews whose lives are threatened by the angry, Jew-hating townspeople. The Jews are given refuge and protection by the Ki...

from IreneF

I enjoyed this book despite myself. While many elements of the story are individually plausible, the entire set-up strains the suspension of disbelief, and Adelia, our heroine, is a modern woman laced into a 12th-century kirtle. Several of the reviews below can fill you in on the plot. A little b...

from TadAD

I know I'm a bit late to the party reading this as it made the rounds of recommendations on LibraryThing a while back. I find that my expectations of books that everyone is raving about get a bit too high and it's best to let the hooplah die down before I try it...it tends to work out better for ...

from mrstreme

The first in a series, Mistress of the Art of Death introduces us to Adelia Aguilar - a medieval version of Kate Scarpetta - who travels to England to determine who was killing young children around Canterbury.  Adelia hails from Salerno, where women were allowed to study medicine, and she was an...

from jhedlund

This book reads best as a thriller, since the mystery is so compelling and suspenseful that you almost forget about the twelfth century England backdrop. The book did, however, spark my interest in reading more about the reign of Henry II from other authors. Ariana Franklin's book is somewhat rem...