Trojan Gold

Its place in Vicky Bliss

Trojan Gold is book 5 in the Vicky Bliss series. It follows Silhouette in Scarlet. It is followed by Night Train to Memphis. See the full Vicky Bliss reading order.

Vicky Bliss is a six-foot-tall American art historian working at a museum in Munich, whose genuine expertise in medieval and Renaissance art keeps landing her in the middle of forgery schemes, art theft, and murder across Europe. Elizabeth Peters (the pen name of Egyptologist Barbara Mertz) gives Vicky a very different voice from Amelia Peabody: funnier about her own vanity, more openly modern, and paired for most of the series with the series' real scene-stealer, the art thief and con man John Smythe -- a…