Ann's review
He Shall Thunder in the Sky: An Amelia Peabody Mystery (Book 12)
by Elizabeth Peters
Ann's review
He Shall Thunder in the Sky: An Amelia Peabody Mystery (Book 12) by Elizabeth Peters
Ann's review
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bookshelves:
bestmysteries,
fantasticfemales
I am only putting this one up here just because there are so many Elizabeth Peters/ Amelia Peabody mysteries that I don't want to clog this shelf. But this is an especially good one. Amelia Peabody is an Egyptologist who, along with her Egyptologist husband Radcliffe Emerson, spends an awful lot of time getting involved in murder and antiquities theft plots while on excavations in Egypt. The stories take place in the late 19th and early 20th century, and Amelia Peabody is quite the forward thinking woman- she is full of wit and fire, and constantly holds her own in the face of villainous escapades. They also have a son, Ramses, an adopted daughter (Nefret) whom they rescued from the desert in one of the earlier books (The Last Camel Died at Noon), as well as a young Egyptian named David whom they rescued from an antiquities forger. These three characters are also really great, and, of course, proceed upon their own adventures over the course of the series. I haven't read any of El...more
