Night Train to Memphis is raucous fun, with just enough chills. Peters has written her own off-the-wall take on Agatha Christies Death on the Nilebut its Christie on amphetamines, with a bourbon chaser!Santa Barbara News-Press
An assistant curator of Munichs 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 shell help solve a murder and stop a heist of Egyptian antiquities, all 511" 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.

Elizabeth Peters, whose New York Times best-selling novels are often set against historical backdrops, earned a Ph.D. in Egyptology at the University of Chicago. She also writes best-selling books under the pseudonym Barbara Michaels. She lives in Frederick, Maryland.