Murder at the Feast of Rejoicing - Softcover

Robinson, Lynda S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345395328 ISBN 13: 9780345395320

Publisher: Fawcett, 1997

Synopsis

"DELICIOUS . . . Robinson makes history live and breathe again."

*The New York Times Book Review
The small group gathered at Lord Meren's country house to celebrate his homecoming is soon to become yet smaller. Beautiful Anhai, Meren's cousin-in-law, falls victim to murder--an act of violence as inscrutable as the sphinx. True, she had myriad lovers and a scorpion tongue, but why was her body arranged so meticulously, as if for sleep? The most dreadful possibility is that the crime has to do with Lord Meren's awesome undercover mission for the pharaoh, for which his feast of rejoicing is in part a cover. This mission cannot, must not, fail. Ruthlessly stripping bare the deepest secrets of the nest of cobras who are his nearest relatives, Meren finds the thread that leads to the truth and the unmasking of a shocking crime in the court of the living god. . . .
"As Robinson deftly juggles ancient Egyptian political intrigue and a riveting mystery, she proves again her mastery of the historical whodunit."

*Publishers Weekly (starred review)

About this title

About the Author:

Lynda S. Robinson holds a PhD in anthropology, with a concentration in archaeology, from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the Lord Meren mysteries, including Murder in the Place of Anubis, Murder at the God’s Gate, Eater of Souls, and Slayer of Gods. In addition to her crime fiction, she also writes romance novels under the name Suzanne Robinson. She lives in Texas.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Think you've got problems when you go home for the holidays? Your relatives--like those of Lord Meren, the Eyes and Ears of Pharaoh--may squabble with each other and complain that you've got it made and wheedle you to work your connections for them and fix you up with would-be romantic partners, but you probably don't have to worry about finding your cousin's wife dead in your granary or concealing the presence of the embalmed bodies of King Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti and their burial treasures, resting uneasily in a haunted temple right around the corner while King Tutankhamen prepares a new tomb safe where they'll be secure from vandals--and from the spies and court plotters hovering like vultures around the expedition's can-do man, Meren's adopted son Kysen, whom his relatives all despise, too. Nor do you have to worry whether to suspect your dissolute brother, your aspiring mate, or the followers of the scheming Prince Hunefer of poisoning your guests--or how to go about questioning your relatives and keeping them confined to their quarters when they don't come up with the right answers about the insidious tekau plant. ``Interfering relatives are far more dangerous than ordinary murderers and spies,'' concludes Lord Meren, whose third case (Murder at the God's Gate, 1995, etc.) is a typically trenchant backdating of the English country-house mystery, with all the mod. cons. of politics and psychology. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fawcett
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0345395328
• ISBN 13: 9780345395320
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256