I just found out about her death and I am really saddened. She is one of the few authors that I have read continuously from my teen years to the present day. I also had gotten my mother interested in her books and it was fun to be able to share the love of those books with her during her life.
I loved all of her books, whether she was writing as Elizabeth Peters or Barbara Michaels. I probably own more of her hardcovers than I do for any other author.
The first book of hers that I ever read was "The Camelot Caper", which is basically the prequel to the Vicky Bliss series. I loved the humor in that book,and it was probably the first romantic mystery that I had read up to that point where the 'hero" wasn't a perfect male specimen yet she made him attractive to my mental eye nonetheless.
RIP, Barbara.
