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Originally Posted by AlexGrama
I have finished To kill a mockingbird. Brilliant.
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When I saw your post, I thought I would do a reread and made a note to dig through my bookshelves for it. Then tonight, while avoiding getting my taxes done, it was on TV. I think I learn something each time I follow the story.
Just starting
Scorpion House by Maria Hudgins. (Still on my Egypt thing and surprisingly they have all been freebies.) I really liked that the beginning of the book had a short blurb to give me an idea of what the book was going to be about and I didn't have to search for it.
amazon blurb:
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It sounds like the chance of a lifetime, to explore the tomb of an ancient Egyptian nobleman and live in an expedition house with other scientists. All expenses paid, and her name on a paper sure to be published in a prestigious journal. But when her housemates start turning up dead, all under unpleasant circumstances, Lacy Glass has reason to suspect she’s next.
Lacy is a botanist, a pigment specialist, recruited to analyze the paint on the walls and the dyes in the linen found in the tomb. Altogether, nine specialists share the house on the west bank of the Nile in Luxor, but Lacy isn't sure she can trust any of them. The first to die is her best friend, her mentor, and the only housemate she knows well enough to trust.
These housemates include a cook who believes she's the pharaoh Hatshepsut's daughter, an ex-pat American botanist, an overbearing team leader, and a surfeit of scorpions.