Shadows on the Nile

by Kate Furnivall

First published 2013

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3.7(3,122)

In 1932, Jessica Kenton is living an independent life in London when her younger brother Tim, an expert in Egyptian archaeology, disappears. Determined to find him, she follows the clues he has left behind and joins Sir Montague Chamford on a journey to Egypt. The search also reopens the mystery of another brother who vanished from the family years earlier.

In Egypt, archaeological sites, desert travel and the international world surrounding the Nile become the setting for an increasingly dangerous investigation. Jessica is forced to question Montague's motives while confronting secrets that connect her brothers' disappearances. The novel mixes family mystery and romance with the fascination for Egyptology, travel and excavation that made interwar Egypt a magnet for European scholars, tourists and adventurers.