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Was it murder... or something else
Tamara Hoyland is working undercover as a tour guide in Egypt. She's been sent to keep an eye on Janet Macmillan, a government scientist whose research could threaten British security.
The group is a real motley crew - including a television star, a failed poet, a businessman, an archaeologist and the scientist herself. But by the time they reach their excavation on a remote island, two of the group are dead.
Are the deaths related? And is there more than one killer? With ransom notes and double identities, this won't be an easy crime to solve.
Jessica Mann was born in London, England in 1937. She studied archaeology at Cambridge University and Law at Leicester University. Death Beyond the Nile is the fourth in a series of six novels featuring archaeologist Tamara Hoyland. She contributes reviews and feature articles to many newspapers and magazines, is a regular broadcaster on TV and radio and tours regularly promoting her books at events and festivals. Jessica lives with her husband, an archaeologist, in Cornwall.
"A mix of the type of murder mystery and brilliant characterisation which makes Ms Mann one of today's foremost crime writers." Harriet Waugh, The Spectator
''Instinct with history, enthrallingly intricate, this is a stylish mixture of period pastiche and a lethal twist-and-turn treasure hunt. Mann rings the maximum entertainment from each, and her lively and literate Tamara Hoyland is fast becoming crime fiction's most beguiling sleuthess." The Times
"Funeral Sites is engrossingly told and grips from start to finish. How often one looks in vain for distinction. Here one finds it." Christopher Wordsworth, The Observer
"A sophisticated, high tension crime novel, deserving all the adjectives usually applied to Jessica Mann - intelligent, witty, sardonic" John West, Sunday Times
Genre: Mystery
Tamara Hoyland is working undercover as a tour guide in Egypt. She's been sent to keep an eye on Janet Macmillan, a government scientist whose research could threaten British security.
The group is a real motley crew - including a television star, a failed poet, a businessman, an archaeologist and the scientist herself. But by the time they reach their excavation on a remote island, two of the group are dead.
Are the deaths related? And is there more than one killer? With ransom notes and double identities, this won't be an easy crime to solve.
Jessica Mann was born in London, England in 1937. She studied archaeology at Cambridge University and Law at Leicester University. Death Beyond the Nile is the fourth in a series of six novels featuring archaeologist Tamara Hoyland. She contributes reviews and feature articles to many newspapers and magazines, is a regular broadcaster on TV and radio and tours regularly promoting her books at events and festivals. Jessica lives with her husband, an archaeologist, in Cornwall.
Praise for Death Beyond the Nile
"A mix of the type of murder mystery and brilliant characterisation which makes Ms Mann one of today's foremost crime writers." Harriet Waugh, The Spectator
Praise for Jessica Mann
''Instinct with history, enthrallingly intricate, this is a stylish mixture of period pastiche and a lethal twist-and-turn treasure hunt. Mann rings the maximum entertainment from each, and her lively and literate Tamara Hoyland is fast becoming crime fiction's most beguiling sleuthess." The Times
"Funeral Sites is engrossingly told and grips from start to finish. How often one looks in vain for distinction. Here one finds it." Christopher Wordsworth, The Observer
"A sophisticated, high tension crime novel, deserving all the adjectives usually applied to Jessica Mann - intelligent, witty, sardonic" John West, Sunday Times
Genre: Mystery
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