Ariana Franklin, Author . Morrow $24.95 (422p) ISBN 978-0-06-081726-8
British author Franklin (the pseudonym of a veteran historical fiction writer) makes the most of an original premise in this engrossing thriller that opens in 1922 Berlin. The German government is in crisis, inflation is staggering, anti-Semitism is
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Ariana Franklin, Author . Putnam $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-15414-0
Had Ellis Peters's Brother Cadfael been born a few decades later, he might have found a worthy associate and friend in Dr. Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar of Salerno, a short and short-tempered medieval coroner hired in secret by King Henry
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Ariana Franklin, Author . Putnam $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15464-5
Set in 12th-century England, Franklin’s mesmerizing second historical delivers on the promise of her first, Mistress of the Art of Death
(2007). When Rosamund Clifford, Henry II’s mistress, is poisoned, Dr. Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese...
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Ariana Franklin, Author . Putnam $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-399-15544-4
Set in 1176, Franklin’s excellent third Mistress of the Art of Death novel (after The Serpent’s Tale
) finds Adelia Aguilar, a “qualified doctor from the School of Medicine in Salerno,” in the holy town of Glastonbury, where...
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Ariana Franklin, Author . Putnam $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15628-1
In Franklin's well-paced fourth Mistress of the Art of Death novel (after Grave Goods
), Henry II of England assigns his trusted doctor friend, Adelia Aguilar, who studied at the School of Medicine in Salerno, Italy, to accompany his 10-year-old
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Ariana Franklin, Author, Kate Reading, Read by , read by Kate Reading. Penguin Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-314287-4
Franklin reintroduces the second coming of Adelia Aguilar, a character who first appeared in Mistress of the Art of Death
. Kate Reading captures her brilliantly through a wonderful and eerie reading. She has a voice made for narration; steady and...
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