Borrower of the Night

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago’s famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012, was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen . Klappentext A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to art historian Vicky Bliss, drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here, where the blood of the long-forgotten damned stains ancient stones, Vicky must face two equally perilous possibilities. Either a powerful supernatural evil inhabits this place . . . or someone frighteningly real is willing to kill for what Vicky is determined to find. Zusammenfassung A missing masterwork in wood! the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century! may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to art historian Vicky Bliss! drawing her and an arrogant male colleague into the forbidding citadel and its dark secrets. But the treasure hunt soon turns deadly. Here! where the blood of the long-forgotten damned stains ancient stones! Vicky must face two equally perilous possibilities. Either a powerful supernatural evil inhabits this place . . . or someone frighteningly real is willing to kill for what Vicky is determined to find.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Peters
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.2008
• EAN: 9780061656071
• ISBN: 978-0-06-165607-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 192 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Vicky Bliss Series; Vicky Bliss; Vicky Bliss Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: Romance / Contemporary, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION: Romance / Suspense, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General