Mystery Book Club: Mistress of the Art of Death

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Book Club

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Adult
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The library's Mystery Book Club meets at 1 PM on the first Tuesday of each month. All are welcome.

Whenever possible, copies of each month's title will be available for checkout with a library card.

Registration is optional - register to receive reminders!

This club will be held in hybrid format. Come in person at the library, or attend online! Click this link to connect via Zoom. Password: 3GWdHC

For more book groups, visit cityofportsmouth.com/library/book-discussion-groups.

 

Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that Jews sacrifice Christian children in blasphemous ceremonies. To save them from the rioting mob, King Henry I places the Cambridge Jews under his protection and hides them in a castle fortress. Henry asks his cousin, the King of Sicily, for his finest "master of the art of death," an early version of the medical examiner. But the Italian doctor chosen for the task is named Adelia – a mistress of the art of death. In a backward and superstitious country like England, Adelia must conceal her true identity as a doctor in order to avoid accusations of witchcraft. As Adelia's investigation takes her into Cambridge's shadowy river paths and behind the closed doors of its churches and nunneries, the hunt intensifies and the killer prepares to strike again....