Mistress Of The Art Of Death (4 books in series)
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review 1: Even in the 1170s, King Arthur was a powerful mythic figure, hailed by both Welsh and English as the great predecessor leader whose legend would inspire them to new heights. An earthquake at the great abbey of Glastonbury, reputed to be the site of Camelot (along with a bunch of ...
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review 1: "The King of England has called upon his Mistress in the Art of Death - anatomist and doctor Adelia Aguilar - to accompany ten-year-old Princess Joanna on her thousand-mile journey to marry the King of Sicily. They must take with them the legendary sword Excalibur."And so Adelia ...
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review 1: 3rd of series Mistress of the Art of Death. King Henry II wants Adelia to go to Glastonbury (which had just burned down) to check out the skeletons found there. Supposedly "Arthur and Guiniviere". They turn out to be 2 males--the Abbott's son and lover that he killed before becom...
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review 1: Book 4 in the "Mistress in the Art of Death" series. I like spending time with Adelia Aguilar and her friends, learning about medieval practices and watching her play crime scene investigator. In this story Henry II "requests" that she deliver his 10-year-old daughter to her fi...