Have you read any of the mystery book by Elizabeth Peters? if you like the Victorian era romances and such you might like her Amelia Peabody series. Elizabeth Peters (Aka Barbara Mertz Ph.D) sets the series in Egypt circa late 1800s-early 1900s. It's really neat to read if you like the Gothic romances of the era. www.ameliapeabody.com/ (http://www.ameliapeabody.com/)
From the Wiki on Barbara Mertz: As of 2010, this series contains 19 books; the most recent, A River in the Sky, was published in April 2010. The heroine is an Egyptologist and is married with one child of her body, Ramses, and two others of her heart: Nefret Forth (3 years older than Ramses) and, later, Sennia (ca. 25 years younger). The stories all relate to the "Golden Age" of Egyptology and nearly all are set in Egypt, the excavations providing the backdrop for the mystery/adventure plots.
The timeline begins in the 1880s with Amelia's decision to see the world as an unexpectedly-wealthy, feminist spinster, and ends with the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. (Additional books in the series will "fill in the blanks" in the chronology—e.g. River is set in 1910)
I will say however there is a constant undercurrent of romance as well even though they are indeed an old married couple.
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Date: 2010-05-28 11:11 pm (UTC)From the Wiki on Barbara Mertz:
As of 2010, this series contains 19 books; the most recent, A River in the Sky, was published in April 2010. The heroine is an Egyptologist and is married with one child of her body, Ramses, and two others of her heart: Nefret Forth (3 years older than Ramses) and, later, Sennia (ca. 25 years younger). The stories all relate to the "Golden Age" of Egyptology and nearly all are set in Egypt, the excavations providing the backdrop for the mystery/adventure plots.
The timeline begins in the 1880s with Amelia's decision to see the world as an unexpectedly-wealthy, feminist spinster, and ends with the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. (Additional books in the series will "fill in the blanks" in the chronology—e.g. River is set in 1910)
I will say however there is a constant undercurrent of romance as well even though they are indeed an old married couple.