The Dead Sea Cipher
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (685 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1470888610 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 337 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Very entertaining" according to Kindle Customer. A travel log with romance, espionage and archaeology. What could be better. As always, Peters writes a very good story with believable characters, good dialogues, and historical details. Very good.. "Not too shab" according to Thomas E. Johnson. This was a decent enough story. I read it as a suspense/espionage story instead of a straight-forward mystery. Unlike others I didn't find Dinah to be an annoying character. Perhaps I wasn't reading her the right way. I found the book written well enough to keep me guessing who the second spy was, and the secondary romance story was okay, not a distraction to me. Heck it was cute enough. Not sure if Peters wrote another book using the same heroine but I would probably read her again.. "A tourist in the Holy Land gets more than she bargained for" according to Moe811. Dinah is on a tour of the Holy Land. Her ailing father was unable to make the trip, so she is sure to save up as many memories as possible for the biblical scholar. On her first night, she hears an argument and what appears to be a murder. She calls for help and this sets in motion a series of events that she may never forget, if she survives it all.I really enjoyed this book, it reminds me of her novels as Barbara Michaels without the supernatural element that seems to run through those. It starts out slowly, but quickly picks up speed and is very hard to put down a
She was a member of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, and won a Helen Hayes Award in 1988 for her role in Woolly Mammoth's production of Savage in Limbo.. She earned a PhD in Egyptology at the University of Chicago. About the AuthorElizabeth Peters (1927-2013) was a New York Times bestselling author whose novels were often set against historical backdrops. She also wrote bestselling books under the pseudonym Barbara Michaels.Grace Conlin<
And as she races through ancient, twisting streets, teeming with secrets and peril, she is forced to trust an enigmatic stranger, a man who may be leading her to safety--or to her doom.. The brutal shattering of an evening's stillness becomes a prelude to terror. It was the start of a grand adventure in a land of antiquity: a rare opportunity to visit biblical places rich in tradition and shrouded in mystery. Her search for the answers hidden in the shadows will take her to the fabled cities of Sidon, Tyre, Damascus, and Jerusalem. The voices are followed by a crash and cries for help--in English. But in the middle of Beirut, a world away from everything she knows, Dinah Van der Lyn suddenly hears angry voices through the wall of her hotel. Without warning, Dinah is drawn into something unholy transpiring in the sacred city
She was a member of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, and won a Helen Hayes Award in 1988 for her role in Woolly Mammoth's production of Savage in Limbo.. Elizabeth Peters (1927-2013) was a New York Times bestselling author whose novels were often se