Mistress of the Art of Death
About this book
The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a "vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition."In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of gruesome murders that has wrongly implicated the Jewish population, yielding even more tragic results. As Adelia's investigation takes her behind the closed doors of the country's churches, the killer prepares to strike again.
Subjects
- adelia aguilar (fictional character)
- adelia aguilar (fictitious character)
- antisemitism
- blood accusation
- crime, fiction
- crimes
- detective and mystery stories
- england, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, crime
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, mystery & detective, general
- fiction, suspense
- great britain, fiction
- henry in fiction
- historical fiction
- investigation
- jews
- jews, fiction
- large type books
- middle ages
- murder
- new york times reviewed
- physicians, fiction
- suspense fiction
- women forensic pathologists
- women forensic pathologists in fiction
- women physicians
- women physicians, fiction
- women scientists, fiction