Review: A NICE AFTERNOON'S DISTRACTION
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2014
Of course I don't believe a woman could become a mummifier in ancient Egypt. That's as absurd as a female President in the USA in the year 1900. And this mummifier is part Sherlock Holmes, too.The book isn't realistic, but that doesn't make it any less fun to read.It's fun to 'hear' the great Ramses admit that some of the hieroglyphics praising him for winning a great battle are completely facetious, but so what, his dad did the same thing. (Or so he says.)And it's fun to read a mystery with hints of romance but no blatant sex.Don't ask me to begin to pronounce these names, just know that Ramses decided to place his faith squarely in the hands of a young woman from Thebes, just because a friend of his gave her a good character reference. His priests were screaming that she was unclean and would place a curse on the palace.But the best thing about being a Pharoah is that you get to do what you want to do. Even the first murder in the palace didn't shake the big guy's faith.But no one would have known it was a murder if her staunchest supporter hadn't insisted she exam the body. That's when you see the first hint of the Sherlock side of her personality. Since she was a woman, no one believed her findings.Until some men examined the body, too.Before the book is over there will be other deaths, the Egyptian version of bulldog fights, attempted poisonings, thefts, an attempted framing, beatings, and a visit to a beer hall/house of ill repute.Whew! But our little lady figures out who does it and why, which was more than I did. Well, I knew who did it, but didn't know why. Why is mighty important.You don't have to do any heavy thinking for this one-it's lightweight, what I call fluff. I finished it in an afternoon quite easily and remember the characters, but not those names.