Grand Master Elizabeth Peters is the New York Times bestselling author of the cherished Amelia Peabody mysteries. Peters uses her expertise in Egyptology to add detail and realism to Amelia’s exploits. Children of the Storm is book 15 in the series, following The Golden One. The year is 1919 in post-war Egypt. Amelia Peabody and her husband Emerson finally feel they have a moment to rest. But their peace is shattered when the treasure from a tomb is stolen, and the body of the thief, a trusted employee of Amelia and Emerson, is later found in the desert. Even worse, Ramses, Amelia and Emerson’s son, is kidnapped by a masked figure. Amelia begins a frantic investigation, but soon she finds herself in the midst of the terrifying schemes of her worst adversary yet. Though Amelia is as courageous and daring as ever, she is up against the fight of her life, with her family’s saftey at stake.
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Elizabeth Peters (1927–2013) was a pen name of Barbara Mertz, who earned her PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago’s famed Oriental Institute. Over the course of her fifty-year career she wrote more than seventy mystery and suspense novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt, of which many were New York Times bestsellers. She was the recipient of numerous writing awards, including grandmaster and lifetime achievement awards from the Mystery Writers of America, Malice Domestic, and Bouchercon. In 2012 she was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor and named after her major fictional character, at the Malice Domestic convention. She also wrote books under the names Barbara Mertz and Barbara Michaels.
Barbara Rosenblat, one of the most awarded narrators in the business, was selected by AudioFile magazine as one of the Golden Voices of the Twentieth Century. She has received the prestigious Audie Award multiple times and has earned more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards. She has also appeared in film, television, and theater, both in London’s West End and on Broadway.