![]() ![]() Her party enters Cambridge in the company of some pilgrims returning from Canterbury. To be able to treat people, she passes off her Moorish manservant, Mansur, as a doctor, while she pretends to be his assistant and translator. ![]() To everyone’s surprise and some dismay, along with Master Simon, the fixer, comes a woman, Adelia Aguilar, a doctor trained in Salerno.Īdelia finds herself in a relatively barbaric country where her identity as a doctor must be concealed for fear she will be accused of witchcraft. An investigator is requested, as well as a Master in the Art of Death, a medical doctor who investigates the causes of death, trained by the University of Salerno. ![]() King Henry II has asked the King of Naples for help. The locals have decided to pin these murders on the Jews, despite their having been locked up in the castle for safe keeping after the first death. In 1171 Cambridge, someone is brutally murdering children. This realization made me immediately buy another copy, which made a good excuse to reread it. I recently realized that of Ariana Franklin’s Adelia Aguilar series, the only book I had not kept was Mistress of the Art of Death, the first one. Here’s another book for the R.I.P challenge with a very appropriate cover! ![]()
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