Download PDF by Ariana Franklin: The Serpent's Tale (Mistress of the Art of Death, Book 2)
By Ariana Franklin
ISBN-10: 0425225747
ISBN-13: 9780425225745
The follow-up to Mistress of the artwork of dying- within the nationwide bestselling sequence hailed as "the medieval solution to Kay Scarpetta and the CSI detectives."
When King Henry II's mistress is located poisoned, suspicion falls on his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. The king orders Adelia Aguilar, specialist within the technological know-how of dying, to investigate-and confidently stave off civil struggle. A reluctant Adelia unearths herself once more within the corporation of Rowley Picot, the hot Bishop of St. Albans...and her baby's father. Their discoveries into the crime are stunning- and omens of larger hazard to return.
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My family had been as timid as the pigeons, I thought. They had let their necks be wrung. ” I asked. ” As we walked down through the Bottom Hundred the secret quail rose from the grass. I was outraged by my family, and very fierce in my judgment of my father particularly, that he had not drawn a sword and slaughtered his tormentors. My lungs were clogged, my heart was disturbed, but my Latin declensions must still be learned. As the day ended, Bébé and I hic-haec-hoc’d our way through the strange pale grass, up to the old mill on whose steps we rested to eat an apple.
My lungs were clogged, my heart was disturbed, but my Latin declensions must still be learned. As the day ended, Bébé and I hic-haec-hoc’d our way through the strange pale grass, up to the old mill on whose steps we rested to eat an apple. It was not yet dark, but I could see, through the heavy branches, the golden lights of our home. I understood it then, as for the first time, not as a castle of pride and strength, but as a weak place, a soft thing in the coming night. I saw my grandfather and my father sitting unprotesting in their chairs.
The long gallery is a racetrack, paved with marble, and we swish toward that low dark door, the little oratory where Maman often spends her mornings praying. But my mother is not praying, so we must carry our machine to visit her. That anyone would choose oak for such a device beggars belief, but my uncle was clearly an artist of a type. Now on these endless stairs I feel the slow drag of my breath like a rat-tail file inside my throat. This is no fun, sir, but do not be alarmed. I might be a slight boy with sloping shoulders and fine arms, but my blood is cold and strong, and I will swim a river and shoot a bird and carry the célérifère to the second floor where I will present to you the cloaked blindfolded figure on the chaise, my mother, the Comtesse de Garmont.
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