I need to catch up with my books.
I consumed the fourth book in the Amelia Peabody series in audiobook form when my mom and I drove to Columbus, OH to see Harry and Branford back in September. I’ve read the first two books in the series and my mom was in the middle of the third, so I skipped ahead to this one, The Deeds of the Disturber. The narrator really made the 18+ hours of the recording enjoyable. For some reason, in this series by Elizabeth Peters I have the hardest time keeping all the secondary characters straight in my head. I never get a clear image as to who half of them are. Which doesn’t help me figure anything out since the murderer is usually one of these characters. I’m not sure why I have this mental block with this series, but I found myself aided by the wonderful narration on the audiobook. The narrator did different voices, or at least inflections, for each character and I was able to get a good image of them in my head and keep them straight. Its almost embarassing to be such an avid reader and not be able to keep characters straight, but oh well.
In this fourth installment, Peabody and Emerson find themselves back in England for the duration of this mystery. As much as I adore Egypt, it was nice to see that, even early in the series, the author acknowledges that the exact same formula won’t work in every book. As usual, I had no idea who done it, but my mom figured it out and we passed the time in the car enjoying a visit with our new literary friends.
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