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Title: Secrets of the Nile
Series: Lady Emily #16
Author: Tasha Alexander
Genre: Historical Mystery
Publication Date: October 4, 2022
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Synopsis:
In a brilliant homage to Agatha Christie, critically acclaimed author Tasha Alexander sends Lady Emily to Egypt during British colonial rule to investigate a crime that leads back to the era of the Pharaohs.
Lord Bertram Deeley, a renowned amateur British collector of antiquities is entertaining his closest friends at a lavish cruise up the Nile to his home at Luxor when he suddenly collapses after offering a welcome toast, a victim of the lethal poison cyanide. Who amongst this group of his nearest and dearest would want to kill their generous host: an archeologist whose dig Deeley was funding until he suddenly withdrew support? A powerful politician whose career Deeley had secretly destroyed? A dyspeptic aristocratic English spinster whose hired travelling companion seems determined to protect her employer? Or even the formidable Mrs. Hargreaves, Lady Emily’s mother-in-law, who may have spurned the advances of Lord Deeley when they were both younger? A key clue may lie with several ancient ushabtis, exquisite three-thousand-year-old sculptures that played a role in yet another murder in Ancient Egypt, a crime with a very real link to Lord Deeley’s death. Lady Emily and Colin gather their suspects together to reveal the identity of a killer whose motive is as shocking as it is brilliant.
My thoughts:
I love a good Agatha Christie mystery. I’ve long enjoyed Ellis Peters’ Amelia Peabody books, set in Egypt in the British colonial period. Here I’ve got a book that pays homage to Christie and is set in Egypt. What’s not to like?! I can’t WAIT to read this one!!!
Have you read any of Tasha Alexander’s Lady Emily books? Would you read this one? What are you waiting for this week?
I read the first few Lady Emily boos and really enjoyed them. I am so excited to see this one!
It sounds delightful! I’m jumping in mid-series, as I’m prone to do. But I can go back and catch up.
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I don’t think it’s a hard series to jump into? I mean they build on each other but not in a way where you’d be lost.
Excellent!
I do enjoy a good mystery. This sounds like a good one.
I don’t recall ever reading a historical mystery but I’m intrigued by this book! Thanks for sharing.
I have not read this author, but it sounds interesting. I hope you enjoy it when you get a chance to read it.
I expect I will. I love a good mystery!
This sounds like such a great mystery. I haven’t read this series, but it sounds like I need to. Thanks for sharing! Hope you enjoy it! 🙂
Thank you!
Oo I want to read this one! It looks really good!