The Laughter of Dead Kings
“A royal treat….Welcome back, Vicky Bliss!...For readers new to Vicky’s sassy and distinctively smart stories, The Laughter of Dead Kings will mark the start of a beautiful friendship.”—Tampa Tribune New York Times bestselling Grand Master Elizabeth Peters—author of the thrilling fictional...
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“A royal treat….Welcome back, Vicky Bliss!...For readers new to Vicky’s sassy and distinctively smart stories, The Laughter of Dead Kings will mark the start of a beautiful friendship.”—Tampa Tribune New York Times bestselling Grand Master Elizabeth Peters—author of the thrilling fictional exploits of archaeologist Amelia Peabody in the Land of the Pharaohs—brings back beautiful, brainy art expert and sometime sleuth Vicky Bliss for one last adventure in The Laughter of Dead Kings. The incomparable Peters sends Vicky and her colorful entourage racing across modern-day Egypt to investigate the brazen theft of one the ancient desert land’s most priceless treasures. Smart, funny, evocative, and suspenseful, The Laughter of Dead Kings is a fond and fitting farewell to the ever-delightful Vicky…and a superior mystery fit for a King Tutankhamen.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780061246258 (0061246255)
ASIN: 61246255
Publish date: September 29th 2009
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Series: Vicky Bliss (#6)
Today is a sad day Im so bummed this was the last book in the series! Im going to miss John & Vicky & Schmidt! I felt like I knew them so well & If i didnt know better, the stories were real & they are too. Lol going to try the other Peters series & hope it compares to this one!
I so wanted this book to appear, bought it in hardcover the day of its release, read it right away—and was a bit disappointed. The bloom was off the series rose, I thought.I was wrong. Re-reading it now, after the author's death last year, I realize she was saying goodbye to a set of well-loved char...
It's been awhile since I've read a Vicky Bliss novel, so I just couldn't get into this one. I seem to have forgotten the characters' histories and the exact nature of their relationships, but also, the dialogue seemed unnatural to me. This just didn't capture my interest; maybe if I reread the oth...
June's reading group book. Not sure I'll bother again. Mildly entertaining - a museum type (it's never made exactly clear what she does) gets embroiled in the stealing of King Tut's mummy. Yup, it's that outlandish. She sort of solves it, assisted by an antiques dealer who used to the an antiques th...
A relatively mediocre Elizabeth Peters is way better than most other authors'.
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