Since they last met, life has moved on for Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor Police and Jerusalem detective Arieh Ben-Roe. About to become a father for the first time, Ben-Roi finds himself investigating a gruesome murder in Jerusalem's Armenian Cathedral.[...]
A body is discovered among some ruins. It appears to be an open-and-shut case but the more Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police uncovers about the dead man, the more uneasy he becomes. And his investigation turns out to be anything but routine. Khalifa doesn't know it yet, but he is on the tr[...]
A mutilated corpse is washed up on the banks of the Nile at Luxor, an antiques dealer is savagely murdered in Cairo, and an eminent British archaeologist is found dead at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara. At first, the incidents appear unconnected. But Inspector Yusuf Khalifa is suspicious, so too [...]
Freya Hannen arrives in Egypt for the funeral of her sister, a desert explorer who has inexplicably taken her own life... For Freya it is the start of a terrifying, life-or-death adventure - one that will lead her and Egyptologist Flin Brodie deep into the forbidding wastes of the Sahara.[...]
A journalist is murdered in Jerusalem's Armenian Cathedral and Detective Arieh Ben-Roi is spoilt for leads. But one seems out of place - an apparent link to a decades-old missing persons case in Egypt. Baffled, Ben-Roi turns for help to his old friend and sparring partner, Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of[...]
An adrenaline-packed thriller and archaeological adventure by and outstanding new storyteller
In 523 BC, the Persian emperor Cambyses dispatched an army across Egypt' s western desert to destroy the oracle of Amun at Siwa. Legend has it that somewhere in the middle of the Great Sand Sea,[...]
Blant ruinene i en lite kjent arkeologisk utgravning ved Nilen finner man liket av en nederlandsk mann. Yusuf Khalifa, etterforsker ved Luxor-politiet, antar at det er en ganske enkel sak å løse. Et sammenfall av uheldige omstendigheter, rett og slett. Men jo mer han finner ut om den døde mannen,[...]
Som i sine tidligere romaner Den forsvundne hær og Templets sidste hemmelighed åbner Paul Sussmann også sin nye roman i Egypten et par tusind år før vor tidsregning. Vi er denne gang år 2152 f. Kr. og den 94-årige farao Pepi den Andens regeringstid nærmer sig sin afslutning; [...]
This textbook provides beginning undergraduate students with a basic introduction to postcolonial literatures from different parts of the English-speaking world. By weaving excerpts from a carefully chosen selection of literary texts into narratives of historical events, the book?s contributors have[...]
Egypti vuonna 2152 eKr. Viisikymmentä pappia vaeltaa Läntisen aavikon pimeydessä mukanaan kaavulla peitetty mystinen esine. Saapuessaan päämääräänsä he suorittavat joukkoitsemurhan, hiljaa ja rauhassa. Georgia vuonna 1988. Pieni lentokone nousee ilmaan Mtskhetan suljetun ydinvoima-alueen l[...]
Arvoitustrillerien aatelia! Komisario Khalifa tutkii Luxorissa kuolleen miehen tapausta ja pääsee vuosisatoja piilotellun juutalaisten aarteen jäljille.[...]
Egyptiläinen komisario Yusuf Khalifa pääsee salaperäisen aarteen jäljille ryhtyessään tutkimaan Luxorista löydetyn kuolleen hotellinomistajan tapausta. Hän pyytää tutkinta-apua etsivä Ben-Roilta Israelista, mutta yhteistyö takkuilee muslimien ja juutalaisten välisten kaunojen vuoksi. S[...]