Amelia Peabody · Book 19
A River in the Sky
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 446
- ISBN-13
- 9780061945731
- Type
- novel
About this book
A River in the Sky (2010), the nineteenth entry at 446 pages, is the second of the series' two out-of-sequence interludes -- like Guardian of the Horizon, it's framed as Amelia recounting an episode from earlier in the family's history rather than continuing straight on from Tomb of the Golden Bird. It arrived four years after that book, ahead of the series' final volume.
Its place in Amelia Peabody
A River in the Sky is book 19 in the Amelia Peabody series. It follows Tomb of the Golden Bird. It is followed by The Painted Queen. See the full Amelia Peabody reading order.
Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody novels follow a formidable Victorian Egyptologist and amateur detective through four decades of archaeological digs, family drama, and murder along the Nile. Amelia Peabody Emerson — sharp-tongued, parasol-wielding, utterly unwilling to accept the limits Victorian and Edwardian society placed on women — meets her match and husband, the brilliant, foul-mouthed archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson, in the first book, and the series follows their marriage, their excavations of real…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061945731
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780061246265