JULY 2017 - AudioFile
When Elizabeth Peters (Egyptologist Barbara Mertz) died in 2013, she left a partially finished manuscript. Thanks to mystery writer Joan Hess, who completed the manuscript, and the remarkable Barbara Rosenblat, fans can rest assured that the Peabody-Emerson clan is in more-than-capable hands. The family gathers in Cairo for the season and, as Amelia soaks in her bath, a man with a knife falls into her boudoir—dead! Rosenblat is sublime delivering Amelia’s caustic observations, especially when husband Emerson flings himself bodily upon several possible assassins. Her "harumph" is priceless. Whether dealing with a mystery surrounding a bust of Nefertiti, avoiding “master criminal” Sethos, offering a refreshing tea break—with pastries and cucumber sandwiches—or dispatching an assortment of monocled villains, Rosenblat delivers a delicious blend of love and mayhem. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
The New York Times Book Review
Deeply satisfying. . . . The joy of the Amelia books has always been their elegant sense of humor . . . Peters manages to satirize romantic thrillers while producing some of the finest in the genre.
Chicago Tribune
No one is better at juggling torches while dancing on a high wire than Elizabeth Peters.
Entertainment Weekly
Deeply satisfying. . . . The joy of the Amelia books has always been their elegant sense of humor . . . Peters manages to satirize romantic thrillers while producing some of the finest in the genre.
New York Times Book Review
[A] jewel of a series.
Toronto Sun
Grand adventure.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peters’s wily cast of characters keeps the reader coming back for more.
Washington Post Book World
Amelia is rather like Indiana Jones, Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple all rolled into one.
New York Times
Amelia Peabody, the bossy archaeologist in Elizabeth Peters’s romantic adventures set in Egypt at the end of the last century, makes a perfect companion for a cruise up the Nile.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Amelia has really pitched a tent in our hearts.
JULY 2017 - AudioFile
When Elizabeth Peters (Egyptologist Barbara Mertz) died in 2013, she left a partially finished manuscript. Thanks to mystery writer Joan Hess, who completed the manuscript, and the remarkable Barbara Rosenblat, fans can rest assured that the Peabody-Emerson clan is in more-than-capable hands. The family gathers in Cairo for the season and, as Amelia soaks in her bath, a man with a knife falls into her boudoir—dead! Rosenblat is sublime delivering Amelia’s caustic observations, especially when husband Emerson flings himself bodily upon several possible assassins. Her "harumph" is priceless. Whether dealing with a mystery surrounding a bust of Nefertiti, avoiding “master criminal” Sethos, offering a refreshing tea break—with pastries and cucumber sandwiches—or dispatching an assortment of monocled villains, Rosenblat delivers a delicious blend of love and mayhem. S.J.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine