Book Review: Elizabeth Peters’ Guardian of the Horizon
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.
Genre: mystery
Book Review: Elizabeth Peters’ Tomb of the Golden Bird
Banned forever from the East Valley, Emerson and Amelia watch enviously as Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter discover King Tut’s tomb.
Book Review: Patricia Cornwell’s Cruel and Unusual
A strange folder on her computer and a Waddell-style murder days after his execution sends Kay Scarpetta, Agent Benton Wesley, and Det. Pete Marino, and young Lucy on the trail.
Book Review: Charles Todd’s An Impartial Witness
WW I nurse Bess Crawford is entangled in a murder that puts her in the sights of a killer. The truth is dangerous—and puts her own life on the line.
Book Review: Elizabeth Peters’ Children of the Storm
Past dangers cast shadows across the seemingly peaceful present, and a new adversary – unlike any Amelia has ever encountered – will chart a course that puts Amelia Peabody’s beloved family directly in the path of destruction.
Book Review: Elizabeth Peters’ The Golden One
It’s 1917 and the Great War ravages the world while archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her extended family must confront shocking dangers.
Book Review: Martha Grimes’ Foul Matter
A razor-sharp and raucously funny send-up of the cutthroat world of publishing.
Book Review: Anne Perry’s Death in the Devil’s Acre
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library Death in the Devil’s Acreby Anne Perry historical mystery in a paperback edition that was published by Fawcett Books on April 12, 1987 and has 272 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Cardington Crescent, Silence in Hanover Close, Bethlehem Road, The Cater Street Hangman, Callander Square, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, A Christmas Hope, Dark Tide RisingSeventh in the Charlotte & Thomas Pitt historical mystery series set in Victorian England and revolving around Thomas Pitt, a cop, and his inquisitive wife, Charlotte. Whoa…very surprising ending. I’m still not quite sure of the details and I suspect I need the next book in line…actually, I think I’m still rather shocked… Supposedly unrelated men are being murdered in an insalubrious neighborhood and its up to Thomas to discover why. Naturally, Charlotte enlists Emily’s help in probing the upper class’ undersides and we meet up with minor characters from previous stories. Very […]
Book Review: Elizabeth Peters’ Lord of the Silent
Treachery and peril pursue Amelia’s son Ramses and his new wife Nefret, and the discovery of a recent corpse in a tomb is pulling Amelia deeper into a furious desert storm .