After Amelia Peabody and Vicky Bliss, Jaqueline Kirby was the third of Peters' heroines I 'tried'. She is a rather unconventional librarian in her forties with two grown-up children. Her trademark is her oversized handbag in which she seems to carry around everything one could think of.
Although these books are also amusing and funny, they cannot compete with the other two series. Maybe its because they are not written from Jaquelines point of view or maybe I just like stories about egypt or troy better.
These are the Jaqueline Kirby books I read:
The Seventh Sinner
For vibrant, lovely Jean Suttman, the fellowship to study in Rome was the cul-mination of all her dreams - until she undertook an innocent expedition to the ancient subterranean Temple of Mithra.
From the moment she stepped into the pagan darkness and discovered the corpse of the repulsive Albert, one of her fellow students, she was afraid. Not even the comforting presence of the perceptive and practical Jacqueline Kirby could erase the fear which was nourished by one small accident after another. "Accidents" which come dreadfully close to killing her.
Someone was stalking Jean, someone ruthless and determined. Before long she could see no chance of rescue from the ever-present terror...no hope of escape...nothing except death... (Bookcover Mysterious Press, 1986; E. Peters 1972)
The Murder of Richard III (Der letzte Maskenball)
This is a book I only read in German (couldn't resist buying a small price Peters book!). Seemed like reading in a foreign language (*G*).
Jaqueline Kirby is the guest at Sir Richard Weldons 'castle' where all the fanatical members of the Richard III fan society meet for the weekend. They don't believe Richard killed the two sons of his brother in London 1483. History seems to be repeated when more and more people fall victim to some dirty jokes and Jaqueline must collect all her witts to stop the fatal course of things.
Die for Love
Jacqueline Kirby decided to get away from the weather and doldrums at Coldwater College in Nebraska. A trip to New York would be ideal and since she is the assistant head librarian at the college she can take the trip as a tax-deduct-ible professional expense: She will attend the convention of the Historical Romance Writers of the World .
The visit is everything that Jacqueline thought it would be and more. Much more. First, Dubretta Duberstein, the scandal columnist, dies under rnysterious circumstances. She did have a bad heart, of course, but...Then, one of the most popular of the writers at the convention, Valerie Valentine, asks Jacqueline for help. Someone, it seems, is threatening to kill the novelist. (Bookcover TOR Books, 1987; E. Peters 1984)
I didn't read 'Naked Once More' up to now.
Other books by Elizabeth Peters:
Devil-May-Care
lT BEGINS WITH LAUGHTER...AND ENDS IN A MAELSTROM OF FEAR
It was the beginning of the best of times for Ellie and Henry - young, happy, and in love, ready to spend two weeks house sitting her Aunt Kate's Virginia mansion. Everything was in front of them, and they laughed in the sunlight...
.. and then Ellie screamed. The book she had found in the antiquarian shop was to be a special gift for Aunt Kate, a story of the town's aristocracy. Every aristocracy has its secrets, though, and Burton, Virginia, wanted theirs kept that way.
And so, it seemed, did their ancestors... (Bookcover TOR Books, 1989; E. Peters 1977)
Other books are:
The Camelot Caper, The Dead Sea Cipher, The Copenhagen Connection, The Love Talker, Summer of the Dragon, Legend in Green Velvet, The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits, The Jackal's Head, ...
Books written as Barbara Michaels:
Search the Shadows
WHO WAS HER FATHER?
When twenty-two-year-old Haskell Malone accidentally discovers damning proof that the dead war hero whose name she bears is not her father, she is shattered. The revelation only confirms the dark fear that has haunted her since childhood. In fact, what little she knows about her birth and her mother's subsequent death, is a fragile web of evasions and lies. (Bookcover, Harper Fiction, 1997)
Determined to expose the truth at any cost, Haskell takes a Job at Chicago's famed Oriental Institute in the city where her mother once lived and loved. But as she searches the shadows of the past, she finds that the truth can sometimes be deadly.
Other books by Barbara Michaels:
Be Buried in the Rain, Black Rainbow, Crying Child, Dancing Floor, Dark on the Other Side, Grey Beginning, Greygallows, Here I Stay, House of Many Shadows, Houses of Stone, Master of Blacktower, Patriot's Dream, Prince of Darkness, Sea King's Daughter, Shattered Silk, Smoke and Mirrors, ...
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