Amelia Peabody Emerson and family head to Palestine in this 18th book in the Emerson family and friends saga. A departure from their usual trip to Egypt: Author Elizabeth Peters takes the story back to an event in 1910 before World War I which revolves around the search for the Ark of the Covenant by both Britain and Germany. The Emersons are sent by the war office in England to keep holy relics out of the hands of the enemy and prevent a holy war.
Elizabeth Peters has an extensive website about the Amelia Peabody series:
http://www.ameliapeabody.com/
complete with maps and timelines. The timeline starts with the first book, “The Crocodile on the Sandbank”, 1884-85 where Amelia Peabody makes her first trip to Egypt, finds a career and true love with archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson and currently ends with “The Children of the Storm”, 1919-20.
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