The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits

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 An unexpected "gift" has arrived for Carol Farley this Christmas: an envelope with no return address containing a newspaper clipping. Blurred but unmistakable is a photo of a man missing for years and feared dead—Carol's father. It is a summons calling her to a world she has never known, to a place of ancient majesty and blood-chilling terror. Surrounded by towering pyramids on Mexico City's Walk of the Dead, a frightened yet resolute young woman searches for a perilous truth and for the beloved parent she thought was gone forever. But there are dark secrets lurking in the shadows of antiquity, a conspiracy she never imagined . . . and enemies who are determined that Carol Farley will not leave Mexico alive. Zusammenfassung An unexpected "gift" has arrived for Carol Farley this Christmas: an envelope with no return address containing a newspaper clipping. Blurred but unmistakable is a photo of a man missing for years and feared dead—Carol's father. It is a summons calling her to a world she has never known! to a place of ancient majesty and blood-chilling terror. Surrounded by towering pyramids on Mexico City's Walk of the Dead! a frightened yet resolute young woman searches for a perilous truth and for the beloved parent she thought was gone forever. But there are dark secrets lurking in the shadows of antiquity! a conspiracy she never imagined . . . and enemies who are determined that Carol Farley will not leave Mexico alive.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Elizabeth Peters
• Editore: Harper Collins Usa
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2012
• EAN: 9780062087812
• ISBN: 978-0-06-208781-2
• Pagine: 304
• Dimensioni: 106 mm x 191 mm x 17 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Gialli; Romance, Historical romance, Romantic suspense, Thriller / suspense fiction, United States of America, USA, Fiction: general and literary, Domestic animals and pets, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, FICTION: Thrillers / Historical, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Romance / Historical / General, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION: Romance / Suspense, FICTION: Crime, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Cozy / General, FICTION: Gothic, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Cozy / Animals, Adventure / action fiction