Showing results for "Cleopatra" in Thriller & Suspense

For years, mercenary Easy Nevada risked her life finding ancient artefacts for a mysterious benefactor. Now she's after one last score, the biggest of all: a relic so cursed that it was buried with Cleopatra in a secret tomb over 2,000 years ago. But to uncover it, she'll need help. By-the-book Candice Cushing only ever wanted to conduct archaeology the traditional way. Now the find of a lifetime is beckoning from the middle of the Sahara, but she'll have to throw her lot in with Easy Nevada to get to it.

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.

Noted for his talent for creating suspenseful police dramas, William J. Caunitz is author of many New York Times best sellers. Cleopatra Gold, set in the New York nightclub circuit, carries undercover cop Alejandro Monahan deep into a drug kingpin’s empire. Alejandro is out to avenge his father’s murder—at the hands of Cleopatra herself.