Ariana Franklin was the award-winning author of Mistress of the Art of Death and the critically acclaimed, bestselling medieval thriller series of the same name, as well as the twentieth-century thriller City of Shadows. She died in 2011, while writing The Siege Winter.
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...[SEE MORE]