Mistress of the Art of Death

The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Timesas 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.

Ariana Franklin is a British writer who, as Diana Norman, has written several critically acclaimed biographies and historical novels.