The Jackal's Head by Elizabeth Peters
Digging up a buried past could lead to a premature death, for there is a dangerous secret that is centuries old--as old as the treasure of Nefertiti. Althea Tomlinson comes back to Egypt as just another tourist, showing the country to a spoiled seventeen-year-old. That's what she tells herself, anyway. The truth is more complex--and dangerous. Ten years ago, something that happened in this desert land brought about her father's ruin and subsequent death--and Althea intends to clear her disgraced parent's name and finally lay a dark past 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 that propel her onward among ancient tombs, legendary treasures, miraculous discoveries--and ever-closer to her own threatened doom.
Elizabeth Peters was born and brough up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Peters was named Grand Master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1998. In 2003, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Malice Domestic Convention. She is also the author, as Barbara Mertz, of Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt and Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt. She lives in western Maryland. Visit her website at: www.ameliapeabody.com.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780062087782 |
| ISBN 10 | 0062087789 |
| Title | The Jackal's Head |
| Author | Elizabeth Peters |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2012-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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