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Legend in Green Velvet
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Scotland is Susan's passion and obsession—and the opportunity to join a Highland dig is a dream come true for the young archaeology student. But then a sinister stranger slips Susan a cryptic message and is later found viciously slain. A mysterious peril has emerged from the mists to haunt Susan, sending her running for her life in the company of handsome, unconventional laird Jamie Erskine. For she has an unseen enemy hiding in the shadows—someone who, for some unknown reason, is going to great lengths to frame her for murder . . . and to bury Susan, if necessary, in this land she loves.
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Elizabeth Peters
Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago’s famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012, was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For an armchair archaeologist, this romp had plenty of history and just enough of a dig to have me googling sites and finds. It's a good tale for those who enjoy a comedic cozy mystery.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/53.5 stars...I thought it was good quick read. I enjoyed the Scottish heritage stories and the setting the most. The writing was not on the level of the Peabody or Bliss series but it was still fun.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Like anything by Peters, pretty good, if not one of her best.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A great story. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elizabeth Peters never takes her stories too seriously, which is what makes them fun and engaging. Susan and Jamie are likeable and witty. There's plenty of Scottish flavor and an obvious love for the history and legends of the country. Finally, there are plenty of "characters" to give the novel some color.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Susan is a young archaeology student with a passion for Scottish history. She comes to Scotland to work on a dig and becomes entwined in an antiquities theft ring. She meets James, the sarcastic son of a Scottish laird, who even lives in a relic of a castle. James helps her uncover the thieves and restore the antiquities, mostly while running desperately across Scotland. This was a fun, quick read with a fairly straightforward plot. I liked the quirky, wacky characters. James' father was hilarious. There was plenty of action and plot twists and turns that kept me reading briskly until the end.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a mystery/thriller novel about an archeology student who comes to Scotland for a dig and gets involved in a racket of antique thieves. She with her friend James solve a mystery.This is a fairly lame mystery as mysteries go. It completely lacked the finesse and the punch.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoy reading an Elizabeth Peters romantic adventure, and this one was no exception. I'm not sure how I managed to miss it until now!Susan has a passion for Scottish history, (and so I learned a number of tidbits as the story advanced) and this leads to a case of mistaken identity, and gets her embroiled in a nasty affair, with bad guys trying to kill her. Luckily her wits and the resources of the guy that gets dragged into this with her are enough to keep them a step or two ahead.Bonus points for a brief appearance by an inconvenient and adorable ginger kitten.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elizabeth Peters getting into her stride in terms of her stand-alone romantic mystery style. Wacky characters and Scottish setting are relatively appealing.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Standard non-Amelia Peters, featuring young archaeologist heroine, picturesque locale (Scotland), sympathetic if sharp tongued young hero, danger, intrigues, etc. Not as good as the Vicky Bliss novels, in my view, but still a pleasant read, buoyed by Peters' humor and habit of inserting interesting bits of local information.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Interesting plot, but lacked tension. Spent more time saying why they couldn’t investigate – with minor things like I’m hungry – than giving us the drama of investigating. Read to the end, though, since the plot was good.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Susan goes to Scotland to join a archaeological dig, but finds herself in the midst of a murder mystery. When she is assaulted by a fanatic, she is rescued by Jamie, a Scot with a love of adventure and an unforunate resemblance to royalty. This is a fun, light-hearted read that is great from beginning to end.