Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University
of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year
career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction
books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012,
was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She
died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The
Painted Queen.
Joan Hess was the author of the Claire Malloy Mysteries and the
Arly Hanks Mysteries, formally known as the Maggody Mysteries. She
was a winner of the American Mystery Award and the Agatha Award
(for which she was nominated five times), a member of Sisters in
Crime, and a former president of the American Crime Writers League.
She died in November 2017, four months after the publication of The
Painted Queen.
"[T]he Emerson clan takes a fitting final bow as the curtain falls on a pioneering career." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Devoted Amelia Peabody fans will read this book with tears in their eyes as they bid farewell to these much-loved characters (and author)." -- Library Journal"Amelia has really pitched a tent in our hearts." -- Philadelphia Inquirer"Amelia Peabody, the bossy archaeologist in Elizabeth Peters's romantic adventures set in Egypt at the end of the last century, makes a perfect companion for a cruise up the Nile." -- New York Times"Amelia is rather like Indiana Jones, Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple all rolled into one." -- Washington Post Book World"Peters's wily cast of characters keeps the reader coming back for more." -- San Francisco Chronicle"Grand adventure." -- Toronto Sun"[A] jewel of a series." -- New York Times Book Review"Deeply satisfying. . . . The joy of the Amelia books has always been their elegant sense of humor . . . Peters manages to satirize romantic thrillers while producing some of the finest in the genre." -- Entertainment Weekly"Once again, MWA Grandmaster Peters uses vivid settings, sharp characterizations, and deft dialogue to transport the reader to another time and place." -- Publishers Weekly"No one is better at juggling torches while dancing on a high wire than Elizabeth Peters." -- Chicago Tribune "Deeply satisfying. . . . The joy of the Amelia books has always been their elegant sense of humor . . . Peters manages to satirize romantic thrillers while producing some of the finest in the genre." -- The New York Times Book Review
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