Book: Cleopatra's Dagger
Author: Carole Lawerence
Pages: 364
This is my 54th read for the year
What Amazon Says:
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 behemian friend Carlotta Ackerman find a woman's body wrapped like a mummy in a freshly dug hol 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 NYC'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 NY'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.
This book was fine. I got it free with Kindle First Reads, and I am desperately trying to make my way through all those books in my library. There was too much going on in this plot, and some of the main characters reactions to each other seemed overdone. It started out strong and I was interested to see where it was going, but it quickly fell apart. They did wrap up the ending fine, but I would not recommend this one as a good mystery.
Stars: 2.5
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