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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2488 KP) rated Death on Tour (Jocelyn Shore, #1) in Books

Mar 9, 2018  
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Death on Tour (Jocelyn Shore, #1)
Janice Hamrick | 2011
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
No one is too upset with the tour group busy body is found dead on the groups first day in Egypt. But Jocelyn soon begins to suspect that the death wasn't an accident. As the trip continues, strange things seem to happen wherever they go. What's going on? I enjoyed the tour parts of the book, although they did seem to slow the book down. That's not necessarily a bad thing because it is painfully obvious what is happening very early on. Add to that characters that aren't always likeable, and you've got something that could have been fun but winds up only average.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/06/book-review-death-on-tour-by-janice.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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David McK (3721 KP) rated Lion in the Valley (Amelia Peabody, #4) in Books

Jan 30, 2019  
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Lion in the Valley (Amelia Peabody, #4)
Elizabeth Peters | 2001
4
6.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
The fourth of Elizabeth Peter's Amelia Peabody series of books, this again sees the Victorian archaeologist return to Egypt, in the company of her husband and precocious son.

As before, they are then caught up in a mystery surrounding a murder as well as the usual romantic entanglements for these novels. This also sees the return of the 'Master Criminal' from the previous books, who is both named (obviously not his real name) and looks like becoming a recurring character in the series as a whole.

I found this to be a diverting enough read, but not up to the standards of the first novel, perhaps due to the fact that I am now familiar with the type of story it is.