Grave Goods by Ariana Franklin

Are the two skeletons found at Glastonbury Abbey really King Arthur and Queen Guinevere? King Henry II would very much like them to be to help his little tiff with Wales. The Welsh strongly believe in Arthur and if he can prove Arthur's dead, he knows some of the fight will go out of the Welsh. Of course, it won't be Henry proving this fact. It will be his Mistress of the Art of Death, Adelia Aguilar. She and her household need to leave the fens because she's been questioning the deaths of infants found in the rivers. The abbot is sure that it is desperate fathers with too many mouths to feed. Henry sends her off to Glastonbury which has recently suffered a massive fire which burned the Abbey and the town. The Abbot and those of his monks and lay brothers who remain are living in what was once the abbey kitchen. Adelia and her companions are lodged in the Pilgrim Inn with a crabby landlady and her meek husband. The inspection of the remains is difficult since all they have are bones, and not complete bones. They haven't any kind of equipment to aid them in dating the bones so they must improvise. I was a little worried that the author was going to introduce some kind of "whoo whoo" element into this story of a very rational woman but my fears were unfounded. There is a hint of another story in the works so I have something to look forward to.