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When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, Ruth Galloway lectures at the University of North Norfolk. She lives happily alone in a remote, wild place called Saltmarsh, overlooking the North Sea under Norfolk's vast skies. When a child's bones are found in the marshes, Ruth is asked to date them.
2) Birthright
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During a week-long birthday party on a Greek millionaire's island, ex- Crown Prince Gregory of Hirtenstein soon begins to worry that something strange is going on. The birthday girl, Elissa Paroskolos, seems almost out of her mind and her husband is overly protective. Gradually, Gregory uncovers a plot which could involve three nations in a scandal. In the end, only he and Liz can save Elissa.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 17
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At last the Great War is over. Amelia, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson and their extended family are preparing for another season of excavation in Egypt. To everyone's great joy their son Ramses and his wife Nefret have become parents. Amelia, enjoying her role of fond (yet firm) grandmother, hopes that for once, this will be a quiet year with Ramses no longer undertaking perilous missions for British intelligence and no old enemies...
4) The whisper
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It was meant to be an adventure, a night alone on a remote Irish island. Archaeologist Sophie Malone never expected to find Celtic treasure or to end up in a fight for her life in a dark, desolate cave. Now, a year later, she's convinced answers to the mysteries of that night lie in Boston. Who has the priceless gold artifacts that disappeared from the cave...and who is responsible for the whispers she heard in the dark? Nearly killed in an explosion...
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 18
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It's 1922, and The Great War is over. With the world at peace, Amelia and her family return to the Valley of the Kings to explore its storied sands. But they are quickly troubled by treacherous secrets and murder. A woman presents them with a priceless but dangerous artifact--a golden king said to bring death to all who possess it. The woman's husband has already fallen, and now she needs help to return the relics to its tomb.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 19
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In New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Peters's eagerly anticipated Amelia Peabody adventure, the Emerson clan is a hairsbreadth away from unearthing the legendary site they've been searching for. But a sinister plot and a dark family secret stand in the way of their ultimate ambition and threaten to change things forever. Convinced that the tomb of the little-known king Tutankhamon lies somewhere in the Valley of the Kings, Egyptologist Radcliffe...
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 11
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The Emersons, summering at home in England after being banned from the Valley of the Kings, stumble into a trap when they defy the order and sneak back into Egypt in answer to an urgent summons from their friend Tarek.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 16
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Revisiting Egypt in 1917 with her husband, son, and daughter-in-law, Egyptologist Amelia Peabody stumbles across a murdered body, a situation that is complicated by an assignment from British intelligence and her daughter-in-law's troubling secret.
10) Stone heart
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Bantam trade pbk. ed.
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Nomadic archaeologist Maria Dark is returning home again to the Connecticut shore-a magical place where she, her sister Sophie, and their brother Peter spent their childhood on the banks of Bell Stream. After fifteen years away, Maria hopes that she can rediscover the joy and optimism of her youth in the arms of her family. But things have changed. Maria's siblings and her mother have weathered difficult times.
11) Century rain
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2010
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Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required for a far greater purpose. Something astonishing has been discovered at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth-century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Somewhere on this alternate planet is a device...
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It’s been only a few months since archaeologist Ruth Galloway found herself entangled in a missing persons case, barely escaping with her life. But when construction workers demolishing a large old house in Norwich uncover the bones of a child beneath a doorway—minus its skull—Ruth is once again called upon to investigate. Is it a Roman-era ritual sacrifice, or is the killer closer at hand?
Ruth and Detective Harry Nelson would like to find...
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 1
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On the death of her father, 32-year old Victorian heiress Amelia Peabody travels Egypt to indulge her interest in Egyptology. She travels with Evelyn Barton-Forbes and her trusty parasol which comes in handy on more than one occasion. In Cairo the pair meet archaeologists Radcliffe and Walter Emerson and sparks fly between Radcliffe and Amelia. The groups meet again at Emerson's excavation where Amelia saves Radcliffe's life and takes charge of his...
14) The mummy case
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 3
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The irascible husband of Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody demonstrates again why he has been nicknamed "father of curses." Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, Emerson is awarded instead the "pyramids" of Mazghunah-countless mounds of rubble in the midst of nowhere. Nothing in this barren spot seems worthy of interest-until someone gets killed. The dead man is an antiquities dealer murdered in his Cairo shop. When a sinister...
15) Effigies
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Archaeologist Faye Longchamp and her friend, Joe Wolf Mantooth, have traveled to Neshoba County, Mississippi, to help excavate a site near Nanih Waiya, the sacred mound where tradition says the Choctaw nation was born. When farmer Carroll Calhoun refuses their request to investigate an ancient Native American mound, Faye and her colleagues are disappointed, but his next action breaks their hearts: he tries to bulldoze the huge relic to the ground....
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 13
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In Egypt to excavate pyramids, Amelia Emerson and her husband investigate an attempt to kill their son, Ramses. The incident appears connected to a friend of Ramses who is selling forged artifacts.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 15
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Amanda Peabody and husband Emerson are determined to return to their beloved Egypt to excavate at Giza despite the war with Germany. They are immediately plunged into danger when their son, Ramses, is attacked in the streets of Cairo. Since Sethos, the Peabodys' arch enemy, died in this work's predecessor (He Shall Thunder in the Sky), someone else is the culprit. Trailing the usual entourage of friends and loyal servants, Peabody and company must...
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Pendergast novels volume 3
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When newspaper accounts of a serial killer at work in l880s Manhattan ignite a series of horrifyingly similar murders, FBI agent Pendergast, journalist Bill Smithback, and archaeologist Nora Kelly once again join forces.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 14
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Intrepid archaeologist/sleuth Amelia Peabody and her family, back in Egypt in 1914 for another season of archaeological excavation, become caught up in the political turmoil sweeping the country, and when an exquisite artifact from a Giza dig is found where it ought not be, Amelia realizes her villainous arch-nemesis Sethos is at work.
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