BOOK ONE

 

Proving yourself can prove deadly.

Cordelia Russell hates living life in the shadows. After the Great War, the soldiers got victory parades while the nurses got forgotten. Moving to Cairo to live life on her own terms, Cordelia finds herself overshadowed by her older brother, the chief of the colonial police.

So when she uncovers evidence of a murder at her hospital and no one believes her, Cordelia sets out to solve the case herself. As the Egyptian streets convulse with independence demonstrations and the murderer seeks to silence her, Cordelia finds herself in more danger than she’s seen since the war.

A favorite character from the award-winning Masked Man of Cairo series gets her own series of cases! Join the adventure today!

BOOK TWO

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A drowned scholar. A count with secrets.

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A treasure worth killing for.
When a Hungarian Egyptologist disappears from his hospital bed in the middle of the night, Nurse Cordelia Russell is certain something is amiss. Feverish and weak only hours before, he could not possibly have slipped out unnoticed—yet by dawn his body is found in the Nile.

The police, including Cordelia’s own brother, are satisfied with a verdict of tragic accident. Cordelia is not. She spots clues that point to something far more sinister.

Cordelia follows a trail that leads from hospital wards to grand hotels, from ancient tombs to glittering cafés—and into the orbit of the enigmatic Count János von Hohenstat, a charming aristocrat whose interest in the dead man may not be entirely innocent.

As secrets surface and loyalties blur, Cordelia must decide whom she can trust before the killer turns his attention on her.

Join Cordelia in the thrilling second installment of her Cairo mysteries!