“Let’s not analyze why we love women who cut up dead bodies. Let’s just enjoy GRAVE GOODS, the third adventure in Ariana Franklin’s dynamic series of novels featuring Adelia Aguilar…. Science and romance vie with superstition and barbarism in this richly detailed, almost indecently thrilling mystery.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“The author excels at creating complex and often contradictory characters, and Adelia accepts the bad as well as the good in people with equanimity. … Franklin's prose is admirably clear and crisp, as contemporary-sounding to the reader as her characters' conversations would have sounded to each other, while her attention to historical detail is faultless. And Adelia is a woman to reckon with … This series is for readers who have reservations about most medieval mysteries.”
—The Denver Post

“Re-creates a living, breathing past populated with entertaining characters. … [Franklin] is a perfect combination of Kathy Reichs and Sharon Kay Penman.”
—Library Journal (starred review)

“A rich and entertaining story.”
—Contra Costa Times

“[A] highly entertaining series … With Franklin, history is fun and games, as well as terribly suspenseful.”
—New York Daily News

“Excellent … Eloquently sketched characters [and] bits of medieval lore flavor the constantly unfolding plot.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Well-researched, colorful, sometimes comical and often engaging.”
—Kirkus

“GRAVE GOODS is Ariana Franklin’s third novel to feature Adelia, a most unusual, compelling and sympathetic heroine. … Franklin’s novels are certainly compelling character studies, but they are also fascinating, detailed glimpses into the medieval world Adelia inhabits … all wrapped up in a suspenseful, provocative mystery that will enthrall mystery lovers and history buffs, Arthurians and feminist historians, in equal measure.”
—BookReporter.com