num_pages: 353
description: With the same flawless storytelling that earned her the CWA Historical Dagger Award Barbara Cleverly delivers a dazzling new novel. Sweeping us to the exotic island of Crete in 1928 Cleverly introduces a marvelous new whip-smart and spirited Laetitia Talbot an aspiring archaeologist with a passion for adventureand for the mysteries that only the keenest eyes can see.Born into a background of British privilege Laetitia Talbot has been raised to believe there is no field in which she may not excel. She has chosen a career in the male-dominated world of archaeology but she approaches her first assignment in Crete the only way she knows howwith dash and enthusiasm. Until she enters the Villa Europa where something is clearly utterly amissHer host a charismatic archaeologist is racing to dig up the fabled islands next great treasureeven perhaps the tomb of the King of the Gods himself. But then a beautiful young woman is found hanged and a golden youth drives his Bugatti over a cliff. From out of the shadows come whispers of past loves past jealousies and ancient myths that sound an eerie discord with present events. Letty will need all her determination and knowledge to unravel the secrets beneath the Villa Europas roofand they will lead her into the darkest most terrifying place of all.
language: English
title: The Tomb of Zeus
publisher: Delta