The Laughter of Dead Kings: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
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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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Elizabeth Peters. (2009). The Laughter of Dead Kings: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense. HarperCollins.
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Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012, was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen.
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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
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Barbara Rosenblat is the perfect performer for a caper that whirls the listener in and out of Egyptian tombs and the glories of Luxor. Some murder and mayhem are tossed in, but they’re almost tangential. Rosenblat captures all the wit and deductive skills of Vicki Bliss, an American art curator/detective, but also conveys her down-to-earth side. However, for all her many talents, Rosenblat is surprisingly inept with foreign accents. The overblown German accent of Vicki’s boss, Schmidt, works well for the larger-than-life bon vivant, but John, Vicki’s fellow sleuth and love interest, teeters in and out of various British accents, and the Egyptian accents of the locals are totally off. Nevertheless, characters’ voices are quite distinctive, so don’t worry about getting lost in a verbal desert. Rosenblat’s overall performance and rapid-fire pacing make this overlong book more enjoyable in audio form than on the printed page. A William Morrow hardcover (Reviews, July 7).
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Fans of bestseller Peters's Vicky Bliss series will welcome her solid sixth suspense novel to feature the plucky art historian, last seen in Night Train to Memphis
(1994). In Munich, where Vicky is an assistant curator at the city's National Museum, she and her longtime love, John Tregarth (formerly Sir John Smythe, notorious art thief), are shocked when their friend Feisal, the “Inspector of Antiquities for all Upper Egypt,” arrives unexpectedly and informs them that King Tut's mummy has been stolen from its tomb in the Valley of the Kings and that John is the prime suspect. Vicky and company, including her inquisitive boss, set off on a whirlwind quest beginning in Europe and ending in the Egyptian desert to clear John's name and recover the famous corpse. In compensation for a slower pace than in earlier books, Peters offers vivid descriptions of Egyptian landmarks, which will resonate with readers of the MWA Grand Master's beloved Amelia Peabody historical series.
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—Tampa Tribune
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