Mistress of the Art of Death Author:Ariana Franklin 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 anoma... more »ly in the medieval world, who is forced to conceal her identity and her purpose from England's grave superstitions and condemnation.« less