1936; Charlotte Cross is a student in New York City, who gets an offer of a much desired spot on an archeological digging site in Egypt's ancient Valley of The Kings. She accepts the offer, and during the time at the valley, she stumbles on an ancient found. And she gets in a relationship with Henry, and they get a daughter, Layla. But later on, tragedy strikes when World War Two is on the brink of breaking out, and Charlotte, Henry and their baby Layla have to flee back to New York by a ship, a ship that lands in terrible weather and that slays Henry and Layla overboard..
Heartbroken Charlotte's live is never the same, and back in New York she is hospitalized in a psychatric hospital after her tloss and trauma, but she starts a new life and gets a job as an associate curator at New York's Metropoltan Museum of Art department of Egyptian Art, where she does research on Hathorkare; a female pharaoh overseen by most other Egyptologists as unimportant which she certainly wasn't.
New York 1978; Annie Jenkins gets to work for the former Vogue fashion editor Diana Vreeland, who is in the middle of organzing the prestigious and famous Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art.
The evening of the Gala, everything goes wrong; Annie is asked to pick up a box at the Museum of Natural History, presuming that the box contains life butterflies, as Diana really wanted butterflies at the gala. But instead, the box contains moths, which is devastating as the box opens and the costume and fashion exhibition, is swarmed by moths at the gala evening, and Annie gets the blame. To make matters worse, on the same evening in the midst of all the moths swarming around, the light falls out and One of the Egyptian art collection’s most valuable artifacts , and ancient Egyptian Queen statue goes missing. Annie and Charlotte spot a man with an ankh necklace, who violently threatens them and then runs away. Charlotte discovers asuspicious lead to who might be behind this incident and wants to travel to Egypt, where the lead links to, also to find out if Henry and Layla are still alive, as their case never was really closed Still a suspect, Annie joins Charlotte on her travel to Egypt, and a journey full of danger begins..
Fiona Davis has written a new masterpiece again! Just like all her other books, The Stolen Queen takes places in a sigificant and famous New York City landmark building, this time the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And just like all her other books, the storyline and characters are both magnificent. The drama in the story builds up slowly, and at first I thought this book probably was one with less drama and mystery then the previous books of Fiona Davis. But the storyline really takes off after the incidents during the Met Gala. I truly didn't see this coming and this surprise effect was truly good! The book travels back and forth during past, during Charlotte's time in Cairo in the 1930's to the present, where we meet Annie and Annie meets Charlotte. This really worked for the story, and I though that the story got better and better and more thrilling, especially in the final parts there where some major plot twists that where truly had a wow-effect. And the ending, it truly is good!
Overall, this is another fabulous book in the already long line of fabulous line of books by Fiona Davis. I absolutely enjoyed reading it and found it highly entertaining and thrilling, and I recommend it!!
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