** spoiler alert ** This felt more like some of the earlier Amelia books, more focused on the mystery, less about the "children". Rameses is slightly less stuff. Slightly. The return of Sethos... awesome. I did cry. I cried a lot, actually, at the death of Abdullah. It wasn't entirely unexpected. His age had been mentioned in the past few books and his successor named. I just expected that Amelia and Emerson would arrive in Egypt on year and Selim, rather than Abdullah, would meet them, not have him shot and the readers be witness to his death. That was harsh. It was a much more fitting death for the dignified man, I suppose, dying to protect the woman he grew to respect. But... goodness I cried.

One of the best of the Amelia series!