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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 II to find out who's behind the horrific murders of Christian children in Cambridge, England. Prominent local Jews stand accused; Henry wants them freed, mostly for the sake of their tax revenue. As Adelia examines the children's bodies and gets to know the people of Cambridge, she has no trouble assembling a long list of suspects, but she encounters considerable difficulty trying to narrow it down, a struggle in which the reader gladly joins her. Not all of the plot twists are surprising and the romantic subplot is an unnecessary afterthought, but Franklin (City of Shadows) has developed a skillful blend of historical fact and gruesome fiction that's more than sufficient to keep readers interested and entertained. (Feb.)
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In the twelfth century, the Salerno School of Medicine (in the Norman Kingdom of Sicily) boasted female students among its ranks. When Adelia, one of the university's prodigies, is summoned to considerably less-progressive Cambridge, England, to provide forensic support in the investigation of the murder of four children, she must conceal her identity lest she be labeled a witch. Still, her predicament is far less perilous than that of the Jewish residents of Cambridge, whom the Catholic townspeople have blamed for the quartet of deaths. King Henry II, while ruthless, is no fool; mindful of the tax revenues derived from Jewish merchants, he's vowed his protection until they can be exonerated. Adelia, whose entourage includes a Jewish investigator and a Muslim bodyguard, carefully analyzes the corpses. Her conclusions, alas, are far from definitive: the crimes could be the work of a serial killer, or perhaps one among the latest group of pilgrims who've recently returned from Canterbury. Though her narrative is somewhat uneven, Franklin (City of Shadows, 2006) delivers rich period detail and a bloody good ending reflecting the savagery of the times. Allison Block
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Morbidly Entertaining, Mars 31 2009
Par Toni Osborne "The Way I See It" (Montreal, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Mistress Of The Art Of Death (Paperback)
With this story we are hurtled back in time to Medieval England. This is a morbidly entertaining novel that depicts human cruelty with details of sexual torture and the sacrificing of innocent children. Employing modern narration to weave historical figures and events into the plot, Ms Franklin provides us with a view of how things were in the 12th century during the reign of Henry11.

Set against a rich background the story begins when four children are found dead and mutilated casting suspicion on the local Jewish population. King Henry 11 implores the King of Sicily (his cousin) to dispatch one of his most trusted and experienced to solve the crime. Sent to England are Adelia Aguila, a doctor specialising in death, Simon her protector and Mansur her Arab servant, their mission is to find the guilty before they kill again. From the start, the trio struggles to understand the horrors and furies that lie behind the gruesome murders.

The author exploits brilliantly the contrast between the 12th century barbaric England and the more modernistic way of thinking Adelia represents. Emotions are vividly portrayed with well-drawn characters.

This is a well crafted novel with numerous twists and continuous surprises throughout
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Good but annoying, Juil 5 2009
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This review is from: Mistress Of The Art Of Death (Paperback)
During the reign of Henry II, Ariana Franklin tells us, the Jews of Cambridge are accused of ritual child murder -- a not uncommon accusation in the Middle Ages. Since Henry wants to keep on good terms with the financially helpful Jewish community he sends abroad for a medical investigator to prove them innocent. What he gets is a feisty female pathologist from the Kingdom of Sicily, the remarkable Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar, who proves indeed to be a "mistress of the art of death". Franklin's plot is engaging, her heroine is given a clear and memorable personality of her own and the historical setting is generally accurate. So far, so good. What annoys me about this book and, in fact, many other historical mysteries involving medieval women, is that the authors cannot resist making their heroines into 21st-century feminists. Not only is Adelia a very rare bird -- a female doctor -- but she is religiously liberal (a proto-Unitarian if not an outright atheist), an animal-rights supporter, sexually unburdened by contemporary morality, gay-friendly, a dispenser of birth-control advice and one who believes that a woman's profession takes precedence over romantic attachments. All quite unremarkable in a woman of 2009 but just not believable in a character set in the 12th century. Can we please have a resourceful medieval protagonist capable of solving the crimes of her time without recourse to techniques and attitudes that are jarringly anachronistic?
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Intriguing Novel, Jui 10 2008
This review is from: Mistress Of The Art Of Death (Paperback)
Since two of my favorite authors endorsed this book (Kate Mosse, and Diana Gabaldon), I didn't think that I'd wind up unhappy with my purchase. The first few chapters of this book are EXTREMELY slow. I wondered what the heck I had bought...scenes from a pilgimage "Chaucer" style, and the introduction of so many characters that you couldn't keep track of who was who, made the first chapters almost unbearable, BUT it redeemed itself before I was a third of the way through, and after that point it was impossible to put down. I now can't wait to read the next book containing the same protagonist...but must say that this romantic was sorely disappointed when Adelia declined her offer of marriage.
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