![]() ![]() Ariana Franklin was faced with the problem that occurs in any long running crime series of where this series was going. The problem with the major players in this series is that in England they face severe restrictions, Rowley as a churchman, Mansur as an Arab, and Adelia as a woman. But there is a crazed killer accompanying them on their journey who has both financial and personal reasons for wishing Adelia ill. The party is also entrusted with King Arthur's sword Excalibur, found by Adelia at Glastonbury in the previous book RELICS OF THE DEAD, which is to be given as a gift to King William. ![]() Adelia Aguilar is a graduate of the famed School of Medicine in Salerno, a mistress in the art of death, who has solved murders in the county of Cambridge and now is kept by Henry Plantagenet as his special investigator. Henry will keep Adelia's daughter, by her lover Rowley, Bishop of St Albans, back in England as a guarantee she will return. He insists that Adelia Aguilar, the one doctor he can trust, accompanies her to Palermo. Henry II, King of England is sending the ten-year-old Princess Joanna on the long journey to Sicily to marry its King, William II. Hardback: 384 pages (July 2010) Publisher: Bantam Press ISBN: 0593063538 ![]() Review - The Assassin's Prayer by Ariana Franklinįranklin, Ariana - 'The Assassin's Prayer' ![]()
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