The Death Maze: Mistress of the Art of Death 2 - Hardcover

Franklin, Ariana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593056507 ISBN 13: 9780593056509

Verlag: Bantam Press, 2008

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Since solving a particularly nasty case of child murder using her forensic skills, Adelia Aguilar is deemed too valuable to send back to the School of Medicine in Salerno. Instead, King Henry II has decided to keep her in England. This is bad news for Adelia – in twelfth-century England women doctors are regarded with great suspicion. So, with her illegitimate child, Adelia is forced to live and practise in the secrecy of Cambridgeshire’s fenland.

But at Henry’s court, terrible things are happening. Queen Eleanor is not only stirring up revolt against her husband, but rumour has it that she has also poisoned the King’s favourite mistress, Rosamund Clifford.

In a race against time to prove Eleanor’s innocence, Adelia is recruited to help. It isn’t easy. An assassin is at large and so is Queen Eleanor with an army of supporters. Adelia has never faced greater danger. The armies that might cause civil war lie behind her. The icy winds of a dreadful winter blow around her. And ahead she must brave the thorns of the impenetrable labyrinth that surrounds Fair Rosamund’s tower, and decipher the mystery of the dead woman who lies frozen within.

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Trysts, treachery and turmoil

Since she solved a particularly nasty case of child murder using her forensic skills, Adelia Aguilar is deemed too valuable to send back to the School of Medicine in Salerno where she was trained. Instead, King Henry II has decided to keep her in England. This is bad news for Adelia – in free-thinking Salerno, women doctors are accepted, but they are unheard of in twelfth-century England and regarded as witches. Under suspicion, and with an illegitimate child, Adelia is forced to live and practise in the secrecy of Cambridgeshire’s fenland.

But at Henry’s court, terrible things are happening. Queen Eleanor is not only stirring up revolt against her husband, but rumour has it that she has also poisoned Fair Rosamund Clifford - the King’s favourite mistress. If Henry believes the stories, England will be torn apart as King battles Queen.

In a race against time to prove Eleanor is innocent of Rosamund’s murder, Adelia is recruited by Rowley, her former lover and father of her child. It isn’t easy. An assassin is on the loose and so is Queen Eleanor with an army of supporters. Adelia has never faced greater danger as she desperately tries to extract the truth from a maze of lies. The armies that might cause civil war lie behind her. The icy winds of a dreadful winter blow around her. And ahead she must brave the impenetrable labyrinth that surrounds Fair Rosamund’s tower, and decipher the mystery of the dead woman who lies frozen within.

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• Verlag: Bantam Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0593056507
• ISBN 13: 9780593056509
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368