2 Ariana Franklin - City of Shadows - Mistress of the Art of Death - trade pb

TWO NEW HISTORICAL MYSTERIES BY ARIANA FRANKLIN
    also writes as Diana Norman

  CITY OF SHADOWS
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.

 MISTRESS OF THE ART OF DEATH (first in a new series)
  King Henry II has secretly hired Salerno's best forensic detective to find out who is killing children in Cambridge.  Jews are being blamed for the deaths, and their ostracism is cutting into Henry's tax revenue. The doctor turns out to be a small woman, Adelia, whose skills in science and logic surpass her people skills. She travels with a skilled negotiator and a trusted though enigmatic man. One by one, the clues are gathered, red herrings released, and the suspects narrowed down, leading to a conclusion of startling imagery.  Oh, yes, there's romance, too.

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