Ariana Franklin Books In Order

Makepeace Hedley Books In Publication Order

  1. A Catch of Consequence (2002)
  2. Taking Liberties (2003)
  3. The Sparks Fly Upward (2006)

Mistress of the Art of Death Books In Publication Order

  1. Mistress of the Art of Death (2007)
  2. The Serpent’s Tale/Death Maze (2008)
  3. Relics of the Dead/Grave Goods (2009)
  4. A Murderous Procession/The Assassin’s Prayer (2010)
  5. Death and the Maiden (With: Samantha Norman) (2020)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Fitzempress’ Law (1980)
  2. King Of The Last Days (1981)
  3. Morning Gift (1985)
  4. Daughter of Lir (1988)
  5. The Pirate Queen (1991)
  6. The Vizard Mask (1994)
  7. Shores Of Darkness (1996)
  8. Blood Royal (1998)
  9. City of Shadows (2006)
  10. The Siege Winter (2014)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Stately Ghosts of England (1970)
  2. Road From Singapore (1979)
  3. Terrible Beauty (1988)

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Ariana Franklin Books Overview

A Catch of Consequence

A captivating historical novel from the national bestselling author, as Ariana Franklin, of Mistress of the Art of Death. Makepeace Burke serves Patriots at her late father’s tavern on the Boston waterfront in 1765 and hates the redcoats with a vengeance. But even she can’t watch an angry mob drown an Englishman. She rescues him and nurses him back to health and falls in love. In Patriot Boston, hers is an unforgivable sin made worse by the fact that her Englishman turns out be the aristocratic Sir Philip Dapifer. Philip must smuggle Makepeace aboard a ship bound for London and save her life at the expense of the world she knows. Rich in period detail, bringing the years of colonial rebellion to vivid life, A Catch of Consequence is a stylish novel of Boston and England, and of a woman who defies convention in both worlds.

Taking Liberties

In this follow up to her debut, Diana Norman spins a vivid new tale of two women as they begin a journey through life, love, and liberty…

In the chaos of wartime Plymouth, in the early days of the American Revolution, two women come together in their search for missing loved ones. Together they face social outrage, public scandal, and even arrest. Amidst docks and prisons, government bureaucracy and brothels, they forge an unlikely and unshakable friendship. And in freeing others, they discover their own splendid liberty.

The Sparks Fly Upward

A new novel of love and courage in a time of war, from the author of A Catch of Consequence and Taking Liberties.

Few of those Philippa loves in London return her affection. Not the love of her life, who has a new bride. Not even her widowed mother, Makepeace Burke. So Philippa decides on a marriage of convenience to a prudish, if kind, man.

Across the Channel in France, the Reign of Terror is causing the beheading of thousands from the French nobility. Among those in danger is Philippa’s friend, the Marquis de Condorcet. Not only has Philippa the means of rescuing him from the guillotine, she’s got the courage. And as fate would have it, Philippa will find love where she least expects it while staring death in the face.

Mistress of the Art of Death

A chilling, mesmerizing novel that combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of historical fiction. 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, the king places the Cambridge Jews under his protection and hides them in a castle fortress. King Henry I is no friend of the Jews or anyone, really but he is invested in their fate. Without the taxes received from Jewish merchants, his treasuries would go bankrupt. Hoping scientific investigation will exonerate the Jews, Henry calls on his cousin the King of Sicily whose subjects include the best medical experts in Europe and asks for his finest ‘master of the art of death,’ an early version of the medical examiner. The Italian doctor chosen for the task is a young prodigy from the University of Salerno. But her name is Adelia the king has been sent a Mistress of the Art of Death. Adelia and her companions Simon, a Jew, and Mansur, a Moor travel to England to unravel the mystery of the Cambridge murders, which turn out to be the work of a serial killer, most likely one who has been on Crusade with the king. In a backward and superstitious country like England, Adelia must conceal her true identity as a doctor in order to avoid accusations of witchcraft. Along the way, she is assisted by Sir Rowley Picot, one of the king’s tax collectors, a man with a personal stake in the investigation. Rowley may be a needed friend, or the fiend for whom they are searching. 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 . .

The Serpent’s Tale/Death Maze

Ariana Franklin combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the drama of historical fiction in the enthralling second novel in the Mistress of the Art of Death series, featuring medieval hero*ine Adelia Aguilar.

Rosamund Clifford, the mistress of King Henry II, has died an agonizing death by poison and the king’s estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is the prime suspect. Henry suspects that Rosamund’s murder is probably the first move in Eleanor’s long simmering plot to overthrow him. If Eleanor is guilty, the result could be civil war. The king must once again summon Adelia Aguilar, mistress of the art of death, to uncover the truth.

Adelia is not happy to be called out of retirement. She has been living contentedly in the countryside, caring for her infant daughter, Allie. But Henry’s summons cannot be ignored, and Adelia must again join forces with the king’s trusted fixer, Rowley Picot, the Bishop of St. Albans, who is also her baby’s father.

Adelia and Rowley travel to the murdered courtesan’s home, in a tower within a walled labyrinth a strange and sinister place from the outside, but far more so on the inside, where a bizarre and gruesome discovery awaits them. But Adelia’s investigation is cut short by the appearance of Rosamund’s rival: Queen Eleanor. Adelia, Rowley, and the other members of her small party are taken captive by Eleanor’s henchmen and held in the nunnery of Godstow, where Eleanor is holed up for the winter with her band of mercenaries, awaiting the right moment to launch their rebellion.

Isolated and trapped inside the nunnery by the snow and cold, Adelia and Rowley watch as dead bodies begin piling up. Adelia knows that there may be more than one killer at work, and she must unveil their true identities before England is once again plunged into civil war…

Relics of the Dead/Grave Goods

Combining the best of modern forensic thrillers with the drama of medieval fiction, New York Times bestselling author Ariana Franklin returns with the third title in the Mistress of the Art of Death series.

England, 1176. Beautiful, tranquil Glastonbury Abbey one of England’s holiest sites, and believed by some to be King Arthur s sacred Isle of Avalon has been burned almost to the ground. The arsonist remains at large, but the fire has uncovered something even more shocking: two hidden skeletons, a man and a woman. The skeletons height and age send rumors flying are the remains those of Arthur and Guinevere?

King Henry II hopes so. Struggling to put down a rebellion in Wales, where the legend of Celtic savior Arthur is particularly strong, Henry wants definitive proof that the bones are Arthur s. If the rebels are sure that the Once and Future King will not be coming to their aid, Henry can stamp out the insurgence for good. He calls on Adelia Aguilar, Mistress of the Art of Death, to examine the bones.

Henry s summons comes not a moment too soon, for Adelia has worn out her welcome in Cambridge. As word of her healing powers has spread, so have rumors of witchcraft. So Adelia and her household ride to Glastonbury, where the investigation into the abbey fire will be overseen by the Church authorities in this case, the Bishop of St. Albans, who happens also to be the father of Adelia s daughter.

A Murderous Procession/The Assassin’s Prayer

Adelia is back in this thrilling fourth installment of the Mistress of the Art of Death series. In 1176, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry his cousin, the king of Sicily. Henry chooses Adelia Aguilar, his Mistress of the Art of Death, 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.

Morning Gift

A love story set in the 12th century against the turbulent background of civil war.

City of Shadows

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 ‘Prince’ 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 ‘princess,’ Anna Anderson, fears that she’s being hunted and this may turn out to be more than paranoia when innocent people all around her begin to die.

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