Cleopatra's Dagger
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A journalist in nineteenth-century New York matches wits with a serial killer in a gripping thriller by the prizewinning author of the Ian Hamilton Mysteries. New York, 1880. Elizabeth van den Broek is the only female reporter at the Herald, the city's most popular newspaper. Then she and her bohemian friend Carlotta Ackerman find a woman's body wrapped like a mummy in a freshly dug hole in Central Park--the intended site of an obelisk called Cleopatra's Needle. The macabre discovery takes Elizabeth away from the society pages to follow an investigation into New York City's darkest shadows. When more bodies turn up, each tied to Egyptian lore, Elizabeth is onto a headline-making scoop more sinister than she could have imagined. Her reporting has readers spellbound, and each new clue implicates New York's richest and most powerful citizens. And a serial killer is watching every headline. Now a madman with an indecipherable motive is coming after Elizabeth and everyone she loves. She wants a good story? She may have to die to get it.
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I got this book as part of the Prime Reading First Reads for the month of March. I was very excited when I read the blurb and I though it was very promising. And, don't get me wrong, I liked the book, I liked the story and I liked the characters. I particularly liked Elizabeth. It's just that the story felt rushed. I wish the author would have taken more time into making us develop a connection with the victims. Because I think that should have been the main point of the book, how Elizabeth got into the story and into the mind of the killer, until she started to understand his thought process. But we had so many side, unimportant plots that we were not able to focus on the killer and the murders, and they became the side plot. In the end, everything was solved so fast that it was very anticlimactic. And this may a me problem, but I kept hoping for more.
