Duik in een meeslepende mysterieserie rond een kunsthistorica met een passie voor middeleeuws Europa. Haar werk bij een vooraanstaand museum trekt haar voortdurend de gevaarlijke wereld van kunstvervalsers en -dieven in. Te midden van briljante kunstenaars en meedogenloze moordenaars navigeert ze door spannende onderzoeken die vaak worden gecompliceerd door intriges en een sluimerende romance met een beruchte kunstdief.
A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of 16th-century Germany, may be hidden in the medieval castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to Vicky Bliss, drawing her and a male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly.
The note with the hieroglyphs was found in the pocket of a man lying dead in an alley. The only other item of interest on him was a piece of jewellery, a reproduction of the Charlemagne talisman, but so well done that Vicky Bliss thought she was being shown the real thing. Vicky didn't know what it meant yet.
One of Elizabeth Peters' best thrillers yet.....and so funny you will laugh aloud.
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand WordsBut the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions instead. A quick glance at the blood-stained envelope is all the proof she needs that something is horribly wrong.The picture itself is familiar: a woman adorned in the gold of Troy. Yet this isn't the famous photograph of Frau Schliemann—no, this picture is contemporary. The gold, as Vicky and her fellow academics know, disappeared at the end of World War II.Now this circle of experts is gathered for a festive Bavarian Christmas. All of them—including the mysterious John Smythe and a very determined killer...
An assistant curator of Munich's National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on Egypt, but she does have a Ph.D. in solving crimes. So when an intelligence agency offers her a luxury Nile cruise if she'll help solve a murder and stop a heist of Egyptian antiquities, all 5'11" of her takes the plunge. Vicky suspects the authorities really want her to lead them to her missing lover, the art thief and master of disguises she knows only as "Sir John Smythe." And right in the shadow of the Sphinx she spots him. . . with his new flame. Vicky is so furious at this romantic stab-in-the-back, not to mention the sudden arrival of her meddling boss, Herr Dr. Schmidt, that she may overlook a danger as old as the pharaohs and as unchanging. . . a criminal who hides behind a mask of charm while moving in for the kill.
In "The Laughter of Dead Kings," Elizabeth Peters returns with art expert and sleuth Vicky Bliss for her final adventure. Set in modern-day Egypt, Vicky and her team investigate the theft of a priceless treasure. This smart, funny, and suspenseful mystery serves as a delightful farewell to Vicky Bliss.
Jessica Tregarth's visit to her grandfather in England leads to unexpected danger as mysterious villains pursue her. With only an antique ring as a clue and the help of gothic novelist David Randall, she must unravel a centuries-old puzzle tied to Arthurian lore, risking her life for the truth and potential fortune.