[sufue]

Cleopatra's Dagger is a non-series title by Carole Lawrence, which, per SYKM, is one of multiple pen names for Carole Buggé. (She's better known, I think, for her Ian Hamilton/Edinburgh series.) I haven't read any of her books, but Dagger ticks off a couple of my favorite themes - historical mysteries and Egyptian history - and it has dropped to £0.99 at Kindle UK, as part of today's Daily Deal. So I'll probably give it a try. Since it's Thomas & Mercer, it's also KU, so if you have a KU subscription in either the US (where it's not on sale, at least right now) or the UK, you can also read it for free.

Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B099RVZMNP
Kindle UK/Smile: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B099RVZMNP

A journalist in nineteenth-century New York matches wits with a serial killer in a gripping thriller by the prizewinning author of the Ian Hamilton Mysteries.

Spoiler:

New York, 1880. Elizabeth van den Broek is the only female reporter at the Herald, the city’s most popular newspaper. Then she and her bohemian friend Carlotta Ackerman find a woman’s body wrapped like a mummy in a freshly dug hole in Central Park—the intended site of an obelisk called Cleopatra’s Needle. The macabre discovery takes Elizabeth away from the society pages to follow an investigation into New York City’s darkest shadows.

When more bodies turn up, each tied to Egyptian lore, Elizabeth is onto a headline-making scoop more sinister than she could have imagined. Her reporting has readers spellbound, and each new clue implicates New York’s richest and most powerful citizens. And a serial killer is watching every headline.

Now a madman with an indecipherable motive is coming after Elizabeth and everyone she loves. She wants a good story? She may have to die to get it.