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"Gothica in the irreverent trappings I like best." -Allen J. Hubin, New York Times Book Review
"A writer so popular that the public library has to keep her books under lock and key."... |
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Elizabeth Jones, vacationing from her New York publishing job, is off to do touristy things in Denmark-gawk at the Little Mermaid, stroll in the Tivoli... look for a missing person? The plane ride... |
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| Amelia Peabody, that indomitable Victorian, embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and her sturdy umbrella. On her way, Amelia... |
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The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands. Months before, back in cool,... |
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| "Grace Conlin's facility for dialect enriches this pleasant mystery...Her rich, deep voice effortlessly imparts life to the variety of accents and ages, and her superlative narration even makes a... |
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"He came along the passage toward me, walking much more quickly than a casual tourist should have walked, almost like someone who is hurrying to greet a friend. but there was no smile on his... |
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An unexpected "gift" has arrived for Carol Farley this Christmas: an envelope bearing a newspaper clipping and no return address. There, blurred but unmistakable, is a photo of a man missing for... |
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| An assistant curator of Munich's National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on egypt, but she does have a Ph.D. in solving crimes. So when an intelligence agency offers her a luxury Nile cruise if... |
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For vibrant, lovely Jean Suttman, the fellowship to study in Rome was the culmination of all her dreams-until she undertook an innocent expedition to the ancient subterranean Temple of Mithra.... |
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The job was six hundred miles away from home, and that made it perfect. Certainly, Hank Hunnicutt had a reputation as a kook, surrounding himself with every self-proclaimed practitioner of the... |
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