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Death and the Maiden
First published 2020
England, 1191. Henry II is dead and Adelia Aguilar has withdrawn from royal service, passing her knowledge of anatomy and detection to her daughter Allie. Eleanor of Aquitaine, still a formidable presence in the Angevin world, has other plans for the young woman and hopes to arrange a suitable marriage. Allie's visit to a sick friend near Ely appears to offer a temporary escape from those expectations.
Instead she enters a community unsettled by the disappearance of several village girls. When one of the missing is found dead, Allie applies the methods learned from her mother and concludes that the death is not an isolated tragedy. Her pursuit of the pattern behind the disappearances draws the next generation of Adelia's family into a case shaped by the same conflict between observation, social expectation and danger that defined her mother's investigations.
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