![]() But her name is Adelia-the king has been sent a "mistress" of the art of death. The Italian doctor chosen for the task is a young prodigy from the University of Salerno. 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. Without the taxes received from Jewish merchants, his treasuries would go bankrupt. King Henry II is no friend of the Jews-or anyone, really-but he is invested in their fate. To save them from the rioting mob, the king places the Cambridge Jews under his protection and hides them in a castle fortress. ![]() The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that Jews sacrifice Christian children in blasphemous ceremonies. In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. ![]() A chilling, mesmerizing novel that combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of historical fiction. ![]()
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