Heart of the Nile

Heart of the Nile
By Will Thomas
Narrated by Antony Ferguson
Listening length: 9 hours, 59 minutes
Release date: April 11, 2023
My review: 4 out of 5 stars

London, 1893: deadly doings are afoot in the British Museum and private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn must unravel a mystery involving a mummy, a giant ruby and a murder, in Will Thomas's Heart of the Nile.

Cyrus Barker, along with his former assistant and now partner Thomas Llewelyn, is the premier enquiry agent in all of 19th-century London, and beyond. They've thwarted the designs of villains and crooks off all sorts, helped Scotland Yard crack their most challenging cases, and worked for the Her Majesty's Government at the very highest levels. But nothing has been quite as challenging and dangerous as the latest case that comes to find them.

In 1893, a volunteer at the British Museum makes a startling discovery. When examining a mummy in the museum's collection, he discovers there is a giant ruby in the shape of a heart buried in the chest of the mummy. Even more startling, the mummy might well be Cleopatra. The following morning, the volunteer is found floating in the Thames and the ruby has gone missing. Hired by the victim’s wife to learn the truth behind his death, Barker and Llewelyn find themselves in the crosshairs—now they must avoid a violent street gang, a ruthless collector, and the British Museum itself in order to find the killer and safeguard the gem.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

While I received a copy of this audiobook in exchange for a review, all opinions remain my own. Thank you NetGalley and Macmillian audio for the opportunity to listen to this novel.

Even though this is part of a quite long series, it was a complete story. You know how much I love that. This book was a perfect who dunnit. There was lots of mystery, lots of colorful characters and lots of questions. I loved the setting of past-time London. It allows you to go way back to a "simpler" time which was also a much more complex time. I also really loved Cyrus and Thomas, the "detectives" called enquiry agents in this series. They are such fun characters. So very different from each other but they work so very well together. I would totally pick up another of these novels to listen to. Narrator was awesome and easy to listen to.