Heart of the Nile, Will Thomas
Heart of the Nile, Will Thomas
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Heart of the Nile
A Barker & Llewelyn Novel

Author: Will Thomas

Narrator: Antony Ferguson

Unabridged: 9 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/11/2023


Synopsis

"Antony Ferguson transports listeners to London in late 1983 for a mystery involving a mummy, a giant ruby, and a murder...The sharp writing and Ferguson's narration capture all the bizarre twists and turns."- AudioFile Magazine

London, 1893: deadly doings are afoot in the British Museum and private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn must unravel a mystery involving a mummy, a giant ruby and a murder, in Will Thomas's Heart of the Nile.

Cyrus Barker, along with his former assistant and now partner Thomas Llewelyn, is the premier enquiry agent in all of 19th century London, and beyond. They've thwarted the designs of villains and crooks of all sorts, helped Scotland Yard crack their most challenging cases, and worked for the Her Majesty's Government at the very highest levels. But nothing has been quite as challenging and dangerous as the latest case that comes to find them.

In 1893, a volunteer at the British Museum makes a startling discovery. When examining a mummy in the museum's collection, he discovers there is a giant ruby in the shape of a heart buried in the chest of the mummy. Even more startling, the mummy might well be Cleopatra. The following morning, the volunteer is found floating in the Thames and the ruby has gone missing. Hired by the victim’s wife to learn the truth behind his death, Barker and Llewelyn find themselves in the crosshairs - now they must avoid a violent street gang, a ruthless collector, and the British Museum itself in order to find the killer and safeguard the gem.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

About Will Thomas

WILL THOMAS is the author of the Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn series, including The Black Hand, The Hellfire Conspiracy, The Limehouse Text, To Kingdom Come, and the Shamus and Barry award-nominated Some Danger Involved. He lives with his family in Oklahoma.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Blaine on May 02, 2023

Book 14 of the Barker Llewelyn series is another good mystery set in 1893, the heart of the Victorian Age. Here our private Enquiry Agents (don't call them detectives!), are contacted by a woman whose wife has disappeared after he failed to come home from his nighttime volunteer job as the British M......more

Goodreads review by Darlene on April 28, 2023

When a museum volunteer disappears after making a potentially ground-breaking discovery in one of the collection's mummies, Barker and Llewelyn step in to find him and make sure a priceless artifact does not fall into the wrong hands. This is a fun, fast-paced, action-packed Victorian mystery. Think......more

Goodreads review by Maxine on April 14, 2023

1893 in London. Phillip Addison, a volunteer in the Egyptology section of the British Museum, is working alone late at night cataloguing and weighing all the mummies. When one weighs more than the others, Phillip is intrigued and decides to check if this anomaly is caused by something inside of the......more

Goodreads review by Ailie on January 15, 2023

So I liked the concept of this book (a take on Sherlock and Holmes just with two different characters) and I thought that the mystery was fun but ultimately not something I would pick up again. That is quite possibly due to coming in at book 14 of a series. The writing was good and even coming in so......more

Goodreads review by Louise on April 11, 2023

Heart of the Nile is the first book I’ve read in the long-running Baker & Llewelyn series and I need to figure out why it took me this long to check out this series. I will definitely be looking to read some of the other books in the series now. The setting is London in late 1893 and the story is tol......more