Hot on the trail of Cleopatra's grave all we had to do was get from Cairo to the Temple at Taporisis. Morning sunlight glared from the muddy surface of the Nile. Six floors down a body in white sprawled in a splat of blood. My first official kill as a tomb raider and it was an ashtray-rubout. How embarrassing.

Professor Roger Jolley and I were in the first trimester of our third archaeological case. The adrenalin high of tomb raiding had become an addiction. As we sat in the Smiling Camel Caf?, I noticed Roger was wearing two left shoes. Brown wingtips. We were definitely starting off on the wrong foot.

~ Egypt, You are loved and respected around the world. ~

About the Author

Barbara Silkstone is the best-selling author of:

Wendy Darlin Tomb Raider series

Wendy and the Lost Boys

London Broil

Cairo Caper

Criminally Funny Fables series

The Secret Diary of Alice in Wonderland, Age 42 and Three-Quarters

Wendy and the Lost Boys

London Broil

Zo White and the Seven Morphs

Cold Case Morphs.

True Fiction

The Adventures of a Love Investigator, 527 Naked Men and One Woman.

Silkstone's writing has been described as ?perfectly paced and pitched - shades of Janet Evanovich and Carl Hiaasen - without seeming remotely derivative. Fast moving action that shoots from the hip with bullet-proof characterization.?