Murder Among the Pyramids

1920s Lady Traveler in Egypt, Book 1

By: Sara Rosett

Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett

Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

Escape on an Egyptian Excursion to the Land of the Pyramids!

Tour highlights include: Hieroglyphics and high tea in the desert, followed by murder after sunset . . .

It’s 1924, and Blix Windway has made a career out of her wanderlust, giving lectures to ladies’ groups about everything from the flora of the American desert to the beauty of the Swiss Alps, but she needs new material for her talks.

She strikes what seems to be an ideal agreement with an eccentric older lady. Blix will be her travel companion during a journey to Egypt, helping to smooth the way through customs and coordinate sightseeing tours. The arrangement will provide Blix with the perfect opportunity to photograph the pyramids and gather material for her next lecture series. But they’ve barely left England before the trouble begins—rough seas and an attempted robbery. Then a murder occurs during a tour of the pyramids.

Despite the attempts of the British officials to sweep the death under the rug, Blix becomes increasingly convinced that one of their tour party is a murderer. Blix’s search for the truth takes her from the posh sporting clubs and lavish gardens of Cairo to the narrow, twisting lanes of the city’s centuries-old bazaar and the vast desert around the Giza Plateau. Can Blix unearth the truth before the killer makes this journey her last?

Join Blix on this classic murder mystery from Sara Rosett, author of the beloved High Society Lady Detective series.

©2022 Sara Rosett (P)2024 Sara Rosett

5 Stars

Murder Among the Pyramids is just what I expect from Sara Rosett. The story is well written with engaging characters. I look forward to the next book.

The storyline and all the different twist and turns that came about during the book

I like this book as I do like the high Society lady book with Olive. This young woman has a different lifestyle and a different story but follows along the same sort of path, but I really liked her independence and the fact that she thinks things through and act on them.

Wonderful New Series

As an avid fan of Ms. Rosett's High Society Lady Detective Mystery series, I was excited to read this new series, and it did not disappoint. The characters are interesting; the mystery complex; and the spin on the Egypt/Cairo/Pyramids trope manages to avoid the banal. Our MC, Blix Windway, brings an energy to the story, in part due to her rather compelling job, that of a travelogue lecturer. No, she does not give a lecture in this book, but she and her trusty Brownie camera are photographing all the people, places, and things for future presentations. Apparently traveling UP the pyramids, even having picnics at the top, was the done thing, and no matter the amazing views, I can tell you that the entire scene had my vertigo tinged nerves on edge. I cannot wait to see where she takes us next. There is also the requisite (at least for me) budding friendship and maybe, just maybe, a potential love interest. This one checked all the boxes for me, and left me wanting more.

The narrator is critical to any audiobook, and Elizabeth Klett does a wonderful job voicing the characters.

rehash

I really enjoy Sara Rosett books. But this is a rehash of other traveling murders set in this time frame and a weak story line.
I gave it a chance because of it being by Sara Rosett. I wish she had given it another polish, deeper character development.
The condescension toward the reader knowledge during the story line was a bit much.
there was nothing memorable here. so sad.