**_As the New Magini String Quartet prepares for a performance of Schubert's masterpiece, "Death and the Maiden," which it hopes will resuscitate its faltering career, someone starts picking off members of the string quartet a la Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. _** Dogged by interna
Death and the Maiden
โ Scribed by Ariana Franklin, Samantha Norman
- Publisher
- HarperCollins; William Morrow
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 203 KB
- Series
- Mistress of the Art of Death 5
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Great Britain
- ISBN
- 006256238X
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โฆ Synopsis
"Medieval-mystery writing at its best." --New York Daily News
At long last, the much-anticipated final installment in Ariana Franklin's popular Mistress of the Art of Death historical mystery series, set in Norman England.
England. 1191. After the death of her friend and patron, King Henry II, Adelia Aguilar, England's vaunted Mistress of the Art of Death, is living comfortably in retirement and training her daughter, Allie, to carry on her craft--sharing the practical knowledge of anatomy, forensics, and sleuthing that catches murderers. Allie is already a skilled healer, with a particular gift for treating animals. But the young woman is nearly twenty, and her father, Rowley, Bishop of Saint Albans, and his patron, the formidable Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, have plans to marry Allie to an influential husband . . . if they can find a man who will appreciate a woman with such unusual gifts.
When a friend in...
โฆ Subjects
Great Britain
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