Book Review: Elizabeth Peters’ The Serpent on the Crown
Amelia Peabody and her loved ones are plunged into a storm of secrets, treachery, and murder by a widow’s strange story of a cursed statue that has already killed her husband.
Amelia Peabody and her loved ones are plunged into a storm of secrets, treachery, and murder by a widow’s strange story of a cursed statue that has already killed her husband.
All sorts of moving violations crop up from cucumbers to nightsticks to taking down the terrorists.
Someone wants the Skull of Sidon, an object created by the Knights Templar long ago. An artifact the power of which bends to the true nature of its owner.
A conflicted princess fascinated with an archeology dig, a student bard without focus, and a disenchanted immortal unite to fight off a bardic evil.
Feel the effects of the Civil War on families, livelihoods, and the identity of the South through the letters of two sisters: Nell, married to a plantation owner, and Fanny who stayed in the North.
This is the lost season 1907-08 when Amelia Peabody and her husband Emerson, along with their son Ramses and foster daughter Nefret, are summoned back to the Lost Oasis.
Contracted by a mining company to oversee a respectful relocation of the Araktak buried atop a diamond deposit, Annja Creed goes up against a group intent on unleashing a powerful artifact.
Banned forever from the East Valley, Emerson and Amelia watch enviously as Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter discover King Tut’s tomb.
A policewoman, Sloan Reynolds, goes undercover in her estranged father’s life where she meets Noah Maitland, a multinational corporate player and one of the FBI’s prime suspects.
A corporate raider, Matthew Farrell is ready to move in on his betraying ex-wife’s family firm. The takeover forces a confrontation that teeters between bittersweet memories and hope.