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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...
4) 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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The author harks back to the twelfth century with a sensuous and tempestuous tale that brings vividly to life England's most passionate and destructive royal couple: Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II. Nearing her thirtieth birthday, Eleanor has spent the past dozen frustrating years as consort to the pious King Louis VII of France. For all its political advantages, the marriage has brought Eleanor only increasing unhappiness and daughters instead...
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Henry II novels volume 2
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[2002]
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IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 37
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He was nineteen when they married, she eleven years his senior, newly divorced from the King of France. She was beautiful, headstrong, intelligent, and rich. It was said he was Fortunersquo;s favorite, but he said a man makes his own luck. Within two years, Henry had made his, winning the throne of England and exercising extraordinary statecraft skills to control his unruly barons, expand his own powers, and restore peace to a land long torn by banditry...
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Henry II novels volume 3
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[2008]
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The third installment of a trilogy about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine traces the collapse of the royal family in the aftermath of Henry's self-imposed exile to Ireland, as Eleanor and Henry's three eldest sons enter into a rebellion against him.
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2011, c2010
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Adelia Aguilar, King Henry II's mistress of the art of death, is commanded by the king to accompany his ten-year-old daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry William II of Sicily, and she takes along her Arab companion Mansur, her lover Rowley, and the Irish sea captain O'Donnell, all of whom come in handy when members of the princess's household come under attack by a murderer.
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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.
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c1988
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Behind the walls of an English castle, three brothers try to win their father's favor - as well as his crown. King Henry II and his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, engage in a battle of royal wits that pits elder son Richard against his brothers, while the cunning King Phillip of France takes advantage of the internal fracturing in his bid to destroy their kingdom.
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