Eleanor commands that they be taken captive, and they all proceed up the frozen Thames, ultimately stopped by the weather at the abbey at Godstow. Albans, Rowley Picot, is sent to bring Adelia to investigate.Įleanor and her supporters come upon Adelia and her investigative group while at Rosamund’s castle.
Adelia’s former lover and current Bishop of St. If it is true – as is widely believed – that the murder was done at the behest of Henry’s estranged wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, there could be war. Now, almost two years later, Adelia’s skills are called upon when Henry’s mistress, Rosamund the Fair, has been murdered. You just accept it, and move on.Īt the end of the first book, Henry II insisted Adelia stay in England to serve as his own forensic scientist in case he needed her. Now, however, I’ve come to terms with it.
When I read the first book of this mystery series set in medieval England, Mistress of the Art of Death, I enjoyed the book but felt that Adelia, the woman doctor who is the protagonist, seemed like a twenty-first century woman (minus cell phone) back in the twelfth.
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