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- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1930s
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything — until she lost her life....
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
A sweeping and evocative portrait of both a family and a country struggling to move toward independence in a society that has resisted change for centuries. Set against the backdrop of Britain’s occupation of Egypt immediately after World War...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2011
“We’ve been doing the same thing for hundreds of years. Marching, fighting, chanting, dying, changing, winning, losing . This time will be different. This time the future can still be made new.” This is a revolution. On the streets...
- Location(s): Egypt, East Africa
- Genre(s): Thriller
Sequel to the critically acclaimed The Abrupt Physics of Dying, The Evolution of Fear and Reconciliation for the Dead. Claymore Straker returns in another gripping, page-turning, socially conscious thriller, with more at stake than ever… It is 1997, eight...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This novel, in the magical realism genre, brings together the mythololly of the ancient Pharoas, 1001 Nights, religion, corruption, gangsters, drugs and much much more.
- Location(s): Alexandria
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 47BC
Alexandria, 47BC. Cleopatra – seventh of her name, avatar of the goddess Isis, ruler of the Kingdom of Egypt – watches over her city. The war is over, but Alexandria, that once great beacon of learning and commerce, has...
- Location(s): The Sudan, Egypt, Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present looking back
On an overnight train to Innsbruck, ex-lovers Richard and Frances meet each other by chance many years after their mysterious separation on a train journey through the blistering heat and vast empty expanses of the Sudanese desert. As they...
The Seventh Scroll (Egyptian series)
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 2000BC
A fading papyrus, nearly four thousand years old. Within it lie the clues to a fabulous treasure from an almost forgotten time . . . a riddle that becomes a savage battle across the unforgiving terrain of North Africa....
- Location(s): Egypt
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): Late 18th Century
Spy thriller based around Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798. From Amazon: 1798. James Burke, British spy, is in Egypt. His task: to investigate the rumour that Napoleon is planning an invasion. It turns out that the French are coming...
- Location(s): Egypt, Palestine
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): Late 1930s
In the heat of the desert, will the trail go cold? Cairo, 1938 Archie Nevenden is many things: amateur archaeologist; theatre impresario; absent father; potential defector. And now, he’s a missing person. His daughter, Prim, hasn’t seen him for...
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