Norman, however, has managed to create an elegiac sense of closure to the series by expanding her mother’s ideas for the final volume into a satisfying narrative. Her daughter, journalist and novelist Samantha Norman, was able to complete her mother’s unfinished standalone historical, The Winter Siege, in 2014, but fans were resigned to the fact that the brilliant medieval forensic doctor Adelia’s adventures would be left incomplete. Readers who adored the captivating Mistress of the Art of Death series written by Ariana Franklin (pen name of prolific historical novelist Diana Norman) were devastated by the author’s untimely death in 2011. Written by Ariana Franklin Samantha Norman Death and the Maiden (Mistress of the Art of Death)
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