Bøger af Ariana Franklin

'An exhilarating whodunit and my favourite book of the year.' TESS GERRITSEN1176- The monks of Glastonbury have discovered two skeletons buried in their graveyard - one is tall, like that of a warrior, the other small and delicate.

Twelfth-century anatomist, Adelia Aguilar must once again examine the dead as gruesome events are beginning to unfold...Henry II's favourite mistress, Rosamund Clifford, has been poisoned - and, rumour says, by his jealous wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. If Henry believes the stories, England will be torn apart as King battles Queen.

'I'd like to crown Ariana Franklin Queen of the Historical Mystery!' TESS GERRITSENThe King of England has called upon his Mistress of the Art of Death - anatomist and doctor Adelia Aguilar - to accompany 10-year-old Princess Joanna on her thousand-mile journey to marry the King of Sicily.

Adelia Aguilar is a rare thing in medieval Europe, a woman who has trained as a doctor. Her speciality is the study of corpses, a skill that must be concealed if she is to avoid accusations of witchcraft. But in Cambridge a child has been murdered, others are disappearing, and King Henry has called upon an Italian investigator to find the killer.

Tess Garritsen calls this one "my favorite book of the year!" In 1176, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry his cousin, the king of Sicily. Henry chooses Adelia Aguilar to travel with the princess and safeguard her health. But when people in the wedding procession are murdered, Adelia and Rowley must discover the killer's identity, and whether he is stalking the princess or Adelia herself.

The follow-up to Mistress of the Art of Death- in the national bestselling series hailed as "the medieval answer to Kay Scarpetta and the CSI detectives." When King Henry II's mistress is found poisoned, suspicion falls on his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. The king orders Adelia Aguilar, expert in the science of death, to investigate-and hopefully stave off civil war. A reluctant Adelia finds herself once again in the company of Rowley Picot, the new Bishop of St. Albans...and her baby's father. Their discoveries into the crime are shocking- and omens of greater danger to come.

The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a "vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition." In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of gruesome murders that has wrongly implicated the Jewish population, yielding even more tragic results. As Adelia's investigation takes her behind the closed doors of the country's churches, the killer prepares to strike again.

A cultured city scarred by war. . . . An eastern migr with scars and secrets of her own. . . . A young woman claiming to be a Russian grand duchess. . . . A brazen killer, as vicious as he is clever. . . . A detective driven by decency and the desire for justice.. . . A nightmare political movement steadily gaining power. . . . This is 1922 Berlin.One of the troubled city's growing number of refugees, Esther Solomonova survives by working as secretary to the charming, unscrupulous cabaret owner "e;Prince"e; Nick, and she's being drawn against her will into his scheme to pass a young asylum patient off as Anastasia, the last surviving heir to the murdered czar of all Russia. But their found "e;princess,"e; Anna Anderson, fears that she's being huntedand this may turn out to be more than paranoia when innocent people all around her begin to die.

'Original, atmospheric and genuinely moving . As castle after castle falls victim to siege, the icy Fens ring with rumours of a madman, of murder - and of a small piece of parchment with a terrible secret to tell, the cost of which none of them could have imagined .

"England 1170. Et skrigende år. En konge skreg for at blive af med sin ærkebiskop. Munkene i Canterbury skreg, da ridderne smattede den omtalte ærkebiskops hjerne ud over stenene i hans katedral.Paven skreg, at den omtalte konge skulle gøre bod. Den engelske kirke skreg i triumf – nu har de den omtalte konge, hvor de vil have ham.Og langt væk i Cambridgeshire skreg et barn. En lillebitte lyd, men den skulle finde sin plads blandt andre".Den lille Peter af Trumpington findes myrdet lige før påske. Hans lig er slemt maltrakteret, og jøderne bliver anset for at være de skyldige. Den engelske befolkning indleder uden tøven en jagt på dem. Da der sker flere mord, vælger Kong Henrik II at søge hjælp i udlandet og får anbefalet Simon af Neapel, der er en af datidens mest ansete efterforskere – og jøde. Han får følgeskab af den unge kvindelige læge Adelia Aguilar, der er uddannet på en af de mest anerkendte medicinske skoler i Salerno. Hendes speciale er patologi, og da hun undersøger de myrdede børn, kommer hun på sporet af en samvittighedsløs morder...Serien foregår i Middelalderen og handler om den kvindelige patolog Adelia Aguilar, der er uddannet på en af tidens ypperste skoler i Salerno.Ariana Franklin er pseudonymet for den britiske journalist og forfatter Diana Norman (1933-2011). Hun havde særlig interesse for middelalderhistorie, og Franklin nåede at skrive fire bøger i serien om sin kvindelige romanfigur, patologen Adelia Aguilar.