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    The Jackal's Head

    By Elizabeth Peters

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    Althea Tomlinson's ostensible reason for returning to Egypt is to chaperone a spoiled teenager through this fabulous desert land. The truth is more complex . . . and dangerous. Ten years ago, something that happened here brought about her father's ruin and subsequent death—and Althea intends to clear her disgraced parent's name and finally lay a dark past to rest. But there are some mysteries best left buried in the shifting sands, and a devoted daughter's search for answers is stirring up forgotten memories almost too painful to endure, that propel her onward among ancient tombs, legendary treasures, miraculous discoveries . . . and ever-closer to her own threatened doom.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061842610
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    Elizabeth Peters

    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.

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    • 4/5
      Elizabeth Peter's first book published in 1968 shows the promise she will fulfill in the Amelia Peabody series. Althea Thomlinson comes back to Egypt 10 year after she left at the age of 17. She hopes to clear her father's name. He was disgraced for trying to sell fake antiquities--and died soon after in a crash. Dr. John McIntire is head of the Luxor Institute, and he is a template for Emerson in the Amelia Peabody series. There is a question as to whether the tomb of Nefertiti might be in the valley of the kings. And Althea and John play cat and mouse with each other and some killers.
    • 2/5
      Not the best Peter's mystery - too much Electra complex. Still, it is set in Egypt and the heroine is smart - an archeologist (it's set sometime in the mid-seventies, but I think this may have been a for-runner for Amelia - the heroines are much the same except for this one is a bit of a nut job over the death of her father, whose innocence of a crime she is attempting to prove by working with his old partner, who she subsequently falls in love with, though much like Emerson and Amelia they fight like cats and dogs throughout much of the narrative.
    • 4/5
      Althea, also known as Tommy, decides to return to Egypt after an apocryphal letter from her old friend, Abdelal, that makes her realize her dad wasn't a forger. It seems he may have found the lost tomb of Nefertiti, but died mysteriously before telling anyone. This is a good book- I wonder if it was the precursor to the Amelia Peabody books (it was written several years prior). The character of John reminds me a lot of Emerson in those books.