The Seventh Sinner - Elizabeth Peters [79]
“Where are the others? The young boy and the girl with the red hair. You are only five today, not seven.”
“They won’t be coming again,” Michael said, in the painful silence. “But we’ll be here, Gino. We’ll all be here. For a little while longer.”
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The World of Elizabeth Peters
The Jackal’s Head
Althea Tomlinson says she has returned to Egypt to see the sights, and to chaperone a spoiled teenager through this strange and breathtaking desert land. The truth is more complex…and dangerous. Ten years ago, something here brought about her father’s ruin and subsequent death—and Althea intends to clear her disgraced parent’s name and lay a dark past finally to rest. But there are some mysteries best left buried in the shifting sands. And a devoted daughter’s search for answers is stirring up forgotten memories almost too painful to endure, and propelling her onward toward ancient tombs, legendary treasures, miraculous discoveries…and ever closer to her own probable doom!
The Camelot Caper
For Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England is a wonderful surprise—and an opportunity to open doors to a family past that have always been closed to her. But sinister acts greet her arrival. A stranger tries to steal her luggage and later accosts her in Salisbury Cathedral. Mysterious villains pursue her through Cornwall, their motive and intentions unknown. Jessica’s only clue is the antique heirloom she possesses, an ancient ring that bears the Tregarth family crest. And her only ally is handsome gothic novelist David Randall—her self-proclaimed protector—who appears from seemingly out of nowhere to help her in her desperate attempt to solve a five-hundred-year-old puzzle. For something out of the cloudy mists of Arthurian lore has come back to plague a frightened American abroad. And a remarkable truth about a fabled king and medieval treasure could ultimately make Jess Tregarth very rich…or very dead.
The Dead Sea Cipher
Dinah Van der Lyn heard the cries for help through her hotel room wall, cries in English in the middle of Beirut. “Help” was the only English word spoken. She thought the men were simply drunk and fighting. Her mistake was the first step on an odyssey of terror that would take Dinah to the fabled cities of Sidon, Tyre, Damascus…
And then Jerusalem, racing around its winding streets not knowing if the man she has been following will lead her to safety…or into a deadly trap!
The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits
An unexpected “gift” has arrived for Carol Farley this Christmas: an envelope bearing a newspaper clipping and no return address. There, blurred but unmistakable, is a photo of a man missing for years and feared dead—Carol’s father. It is a siren calling her to a world she has never known, to a place of ancient majesty and blood-chilling terror. Now, surrounded by towering pyramids of Mexico City’s Walk of the Dead, a frightened yet resolute young woman searches for a perilous truth and for the beloved parent she thought was gone forever. But there are dark secrets lurking in the shadows of antiquity, a conspiracy she never imagined…and enemies who are determined that Carol Farley will not leave Mexico alive.
Borrower of the Night
Meet art historian Vicky Bliss. She is as beautiful as she is brainy—with unassailable courage, insatiable curiosity, and an expertise in lost museum treasures that often leads her into the most dangerous of situations.
A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in a violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood