Author:
Elizabeth Peters
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Learn moreIt began as a game, a treasure hunt in an old German castle. For the beautiful and brilliant Vicky Bliss, it was also a challenge, a chance to bring an arrogant young man down a notch or two. And all things considered, it would have been no contest.
The prize was a centuries-old shrine carved by Tilman Riemenschneider, probably Germany's greatest master of the late Gothic period. The place was the forbidding Schloss Drachenstein, where the stones were stained with ancient blood and the air reeked of evil.
The problem was that someone was targeted, and the game was soon being played in deadly earnest.Vicky Bliss must face two equally perilous possibilities. Either a powerful supernatural evil inhabits this placeโor someone frighteningly real is willing to kill for what Vicky is determined to find.
Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicagoโs 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.
Susan OโMalleyย (a.k.a. Bernadette Dunne) is the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and has twice been nominated for the prestigious Audieย Award. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center and off Broadway. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Susan OโMalley
ISBN:
9781481560436
Length:
6 hours 51 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:
September 1, 2000
Edition:
Unabridged
Reviews
“O’Malley nimbly conveys the determination, loquaciousness, and orotundities of the extraordinary heroine.”
“An ancient European castle…secret passages…a mystery several hundred years old…and danger make this Elizabeth Peters’ best book!”
“Very highly recommended for any mystery buff…A superbly written ‘Vicky Bliss’ tale and splendidly performed in this unabridged audiobook edition by the narrative talents of Susan O’Malley.”
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