The Death Maze
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  • Published: 27 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446454794
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 11 hr 53 min
  • Narrator: Diana Bishop
  • RRP: $21.99

The Death Maze

Mistress of the Art of Death, Adelia Aguilar series 2

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27 Jan 2011
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1 Jun 2009
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Deep mid-winter, 1172, and an assassin is on the loose...

Since solving a particularly nasty case of child murder using her forensic skills, Adelia Aguilar is deemed too valuable to send back to the School of Medicine in Salerno. Instead, King Henry II has decided to keep her in England. This is bad news for Adelia - in twelfth-century England women doctors are regarded with great suspicion. So, with her illegitimate child, Adelia is forced to live and practise in the secrecy of Cambridgeshire's fenland.

But at Henry's court, terrible things are happening. Queen Eleanor is not only stirring up revolt against her husband, but rumour has it that she has also poisoned the King's favourite mistress, Rosamund Clifford.

In a race against time to prove Eleanor's innocence, Adelia is recruited to help. It isn't easy. An assassin is at large and so is Queen Eleanor with an army of supporters. Adelia has never faced greater danger. The armies that might cause civil war lie behind her. The icy winds of a dreadful winter blow around her. And ahead she must brave the thorns of the impenetrable labyrinth that surrounds Fair Rosamund's tower, and decipher the mystery of the dead woman who lies frozen within.
  • Published: 27 January 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446454794
  • Imprint: RH AudioGo
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 11 hr 53 min
  • Narrator: Diana Bishop
  • RRP: $21.99
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About the author

Ariana Franklin

Ariana Franklin was born in Devon and, like her father, became a journalist. Having invaded Wales dressed in combat uniform with the Royal Marines for one of their military exercises, accompanied the Queen on a royal visit, missed her own twenty-first birthday party because she had to cover a murder, she married, almost inevitably, another journalist. At this point she decided that staying married was a good idea so she abandoned her career in national newspapers and settled down in the country to bring up two daughters, study medieval history and write. Ariana was the author of the acclaimed, award-winning Mistress of the Art of Death series. She passed away in 2011.

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Praise for The Death Maze

Highly entertaining... Franklin is an adept storyteller who disseminates her research into the period with clarity and lightness of touch.

The Times

Franklin is one of the very best creators of medieval whodunits writing today. The snow falls, the death toll mounts... and the Thames freezes over in this wonderfully atmospheric, fast-paced and intelligent recreation of a vanished world.

Guardian

Captivating... this excellent adventure delivers high drama.

The New York Times

It's as original as its prize-winning predecessor: a real treat.

Literary Review

Mesmerizing... A colourful cast of characters, both good and evil, enhance a tale that will keep readers on edge until the final page.

Publishers Weekly

Accomplished and engrossing.

Good Book Guide

Mesmerizing...A colourful cast of characters, both good and evil, enhance a tale that will keep readers on edge until the final page.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Captivating...this excellent adventure delivers high drama.

NEW YORK TIMES

'A highly entertaining whodunnit...Franklin is an adept storyteller who disseminates her research into the period with clarity and lightness of touch'

THE TIMES

Seamlessly weaving real and fictitious characters with vivid descriptions of medieval life from limb-amputation to ice-skating, The Death Maze is a rich banquet of a book.

GUARDIAN

This is history as it ought to have been.

The Spectator

Against the well-researched background of intrigue and rebellion we are plunged into the uncertain 12th century, in this accomplished and engrossing historical mystery.

Good Book Guide