The Serpent's Tale

The second Adelia Aguilar mystery. When Rosamund Clifford, the celebrated mistress of King Henry II, is poisoned, the finger of blame points at Henry's estranged and dangerous queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and the realm lurches toward civil war. Henry sends once more for Adelia, his secret mistress of the art of death, to read the truth from the body and cool a conflict that could set England alight. Braving winter, treachery, and a killer who covers their tracks in blood, Adelia must find the poisoner before the country tears itself apart.