I love the Amelia Peabody mysteries and I'm so happy there are like 20 of them. This is book three so there might be some slight spoilers just in the nature of the characters, but not the plots of books one and two. Amelia Peabody Emerson has mostly resigned herself to being a doting English wife and mother instead of prowling the sands of Egypt as an archeologist when her husband surprises her with a chance to dig at the pyramids of Dashoor. She is ecstatic but soon comes to realize that nothing about the trip is going to go right. Firstly, her husband has ostracized the entire Egyptology community with his abrasive opinions and their petition for Dashoor is denied, leaving them the much less interesting Mazghunah to excavate. Secondly, their local workforce is at odds with a splinter religious group led by the odious Brother Ezekiel, putting the Emerson family square in the middle of that drama. Thirdly, there is a series of murders and thefts of a...