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The Cup of Ghosts (Mathilde of Westminster, Bk 1)
The Cup of Ghosts - Mathilde of Westminster, Bk 1 Author:Paul C. Doherty By 1322, Mathilde of Westminster was considered the finest physician in London. But in her years as lady-in-waiting to Princess Isabella, she was drawn into the murky politics of the English court, where sudden, mysterious death was part of the tapestry of life. — Many years later, Mathilde looks back and chronicles her turbulent life. With her s... more »harp, suspicious intellect ready to distinguish between a fatality and an unnatural death, Mathilde is confronted by a host of chilling murders. The source of these horrors is the fierce political rivalry between Philip of France and Edward of England. This manifests itself in a series of gruesome killings, one of which actually took place during Edward II's Coronation, when a knight of the Royal Household, Sir John Baquelle was crushed to death.« less