Murder at the Feast of Rejoicing: 3 (Lord Meren)

DELICIOUS . . . Robinson makes history live and breathe again.. *The New York Times Book Review. . The small group gathered at Lord Merens country house to celebrate his homecoming is soon to become yet smaller. Beautiful Anhai Merens cousin-in-law falls victim to murder--an act of violence as inscrutable as the sphinx. True she had myriad lovers and a scorpion tongue but why was her body arranged so meticulously as if for sleep? The most dreadful possibility is that the crime has to do with Lord Merens awesome undercover mission for the pharaoh for which his feast of rejoicing is in part a cover. This mission cannot must not fail. Ruthlessly stripping bare the deepest secrets of the nest of cobras who are his nearest relatives Meren finds the thread that leads to the truth and the unmasking of a shocking crime in the court of the living god. . . .. . As Robinson deftly juggles ancient Egyptian political intrigue and a riveting mystery she proves again her mastery of the historical whodunit.. *Publishers Weekly (starred review)