Mistress of the art of death

Franklin, Ariana.

Book 2007

In 12th-century Cambridge, four children have been murdered. Henry II enlists the aid of a medical practitioner from Sicily's pioneering school of medicine but the woman's forensic skills could expose her to charges of witchcraft.

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