Lion in the Valley (Amelia Peabody Mysteries)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00ET9ESO2
Publish date: March 17th 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Series: Amelia Peabody (#4)
I really liked this story for one because it was set in Egypt and the exotic locale always makes the plot line just that much better to me. I really enjoyed the twist at the end involving the "Master Criminal." Peters makes all of her characters really likeable and I even like the Master Criminal no...
In this fourth entry in the Amelia Peabody series, the Emersons (with Ramses and Bastet, of course) return to Egypt, and this time they get to excavate at the pyramids of Dashoor. Amelia is in raptures, with a chance to have a pyramid of her very own to explore. But when an adversary is discovered m...
It is always interesting to return to a book I once loved. Sometimes the books are better than I remembered—as the same author's Curse of the Pharaohs proved to be. Sometimes they don't seem as good. Alas, that was the case here. The series is becoming more Rider Haggard-like, Amelia increasingly pr...
I found that I didn't care, seriously if the characters had all been suddenly killed I would have cheered their murderer on, I reckoned I would be better off abandoning it and heading for other reads, some day I may return but I doubt it. Amelia, her husband and son are back in Egypt for a dig. t...
Dashur.3* Crocodile on the Sandbank3* The Curse of the Pharoahs3* The Mummy Case2* Lion in the Valley3* Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient EgyptSummer 2013 Egyptian Encounters:Cleopatra (1963)3* The Mummy Curse2* Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra4* The Complete Valley of the Kings1* ...
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