Cleopatras Dagger, Carole Lawrence
Cleopatras Dagger, Carole Lawrence
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Cleopatra's Dagger

Author: Carole Lawrence

Narrator: Kate Rudd

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2022

Synopsis

A journalist in nineteenth-century New York matches wits with a serial killer in a gripping thriller by the prizewinning author of the Ian Hamilton Mysteries.New York, 1880. Elizabeth van den Broek is the only female reporter at the Herald, the city’s most popular newspaper. Then she and her bohemian friend Carlotta Ackerman find a woman’s body wrapped like a mummy in a freshly dug hole in Central Park—the intended site of an obelisk called Cleopatra’s Needle. The macabre discovery takes Elizabeth away from the society pages to follow an investigation into New York City’s darkest shadows.When more bodies turn up, each tied to Egyptian lore, Elizabeth is onto a headline-making scoop more sinister than she could have imagined. Her reporting has readers spellbound, and each new clue implicates New York’s richest and most powerful citizens. And a serial killer is watching every headline.Now a madman with an indecipherable motive is coming after Elizabeth and everyone she loves. She wants a good story? She may have to die to get it.

About Carole Lawrence

Carole Lawrence is an award-winning novelist, poet, composer, and playwright. In addition to Edinburgh Twilight, Edinburgh Dusk, and Edinburgh Midnight in the Ian Hamilton Mysteries series, she has authored novellas, short stories, and poems—many of them translated internationally. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry and has won the Euphoria Poetry Prize, the Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Award, the Maxim Mazumdar playwriting prize, the Jerry Jazz Musician award for short fiction, and the Chronogram Literary Fiction Award. Her plays and musicals have been produced in several countries, as well as on NPR; her physics play, Strings, nominated for an Innovative Theatre Award, was produced at the Kennedy Center. A Hawthornden Fellow, she is on the faculty of NYU and Gotham Writers Workshop, as well as the Cape Cod Writers Center and San Miguel Writers’ Conference. She enjoys hiking, biking, horseback riding, and hunting for wild mushrooms. For more information, visit www.celawrence.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elsa

Cleopatra's Dagger was my Amazon Frist March 2022 Selection. Historical Mystery the story is set in New York in the 1880's. The title tells a small portion of what the story is going to be base on and if you like Egyptian anything then this is a pretty good story with Egyptian references. Author is......more

Goodreads review by Linda

Late 19th century NYC comes alive in this fast paced serial killer thriller. Elizabeth is the only female reporter at a major NY newspaper. Of course, they assign her to the society page. Late to work one morning she believes she’s witnessed a murder. Her boss adamantly refuses to let her follow up o......more

Goodreads review by Ranjini

That was.. a rough read. Clearly from the other ratings my opinion is in the minority but I nearly didn’t finish this one and I kind of wish I hadn’t and saved myself the time. Cleopatra’s dagger follows Elizabeth, who comes from a wealthy and prestigious family, and is the only female journalist at......more

Quotes

“The youthful, exuberant voice of narrator Kate Rudd brings to life reporter Elizabeth van den Broek, who becomes personally involved in the fiendish murders of a serial killer who is obsessed with Egyptian mythology.… The youthful photographer, Evans; the drink-impaired old seaman, Sea Dog; the sophisticated Cordelia are a few of the excellent portrayals that enhance this audiobook.” —AudioFile Magazine“The riveting story of a female journalist in nineteenth-century New York who must match wits with a serial killer…a vivid murder mystery thriller that is superbly performed by the narrative skills of vocal actor and storyteller Kate Rudd. …a fine and recommended pick for…the personal lists of fans [of] historical mysteries featuring a female sleuth trying to catch a killer in spite of the misogyny that surrounds her in latter decades of the 19th Century.” —Midwest Book Review“Lawrence makes New York City come alive with numerous colorful details…Fans of Victoria Thompson’s Gaslight mysteries will hope for a sequel.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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