T. L. Higley

FROM BOOKFUNNEL: Theft on the Nile
Tracy Higley
As a university math professor, Audrey knows how to solve problems. But the one problem she can’t solve? The whereabouts of her brother, missing for seven months.

When a vintage travel poster advertising a Nile riverboat cruise—tacked up in the back hall of the restaurant where her brother was last seen—reveals a startling anomaly, Audrey stumbles into an adventure too classic to be real, but too real to be a dream.

Now she’s trying to rescue her brother, return a stolen Egyptian artifact, and solve a murder, all while navigating the unfamiliar world of Egypt one hundred years in the past.

Sure, she wants to get home. But danger, mystery, and a dash of romance—who could resist?… (mere)

FROM BOOKFUNNEL: Sahara Aldridge, a young Egyptologist in 1922, is making a name for herself on the digsite soon to become Egypt’s most sensational discovery—the tomb of the boy-king, Tutankhamun.

Despite opposition from a mostly-male profession, Sahara fights to continue the legacy of her Egyptologist parents, who died tragically at sea when she was a teen.

But then a childhood friend finds a lost journal written by Sahara’s mother, hinting at the bizarre possibility of time-travel, and a crazy suspicion forces Sahara to confront a freak incident years earlier…

Is it possible her parents were time travelers?

And has she inherited this mind-blowing ability?

When the American journalist Jack Moretti begins asking too many questions, Sahara suspects he knows more than he’s telling.

Did her parents truly perish in an accident? Or did someone target and murder them because of their time traveling gift?

There’s only one way to unearth the truth.

Sahara must travel back in time, to the days of King Tut.

But the biggest surprise is yet to come… the truth about her parents, and about her own destiny, discovered in the whispers of conspiracy around the death of Egypt’s most famous Pharaoh.

But what secrets are better left buried?… (mere)

I'm not normally that interested in Egyptian history but I love time travel books. I was pleasantly surprised by this book. It takes place in 1922 and I got definite Indiana Jones vibes when I was reading these parts. It talks about a few other different time periods but the other main one is Egypt 1325BC.
Sahara is working at an archeology dig in Egypt. Her parents died when she was 15. A friend of hers gives her a part of a journal entry that her mother had written and it raises all kinds of questions for Sahara. There is a bit of a romance as well but it is not the main story which I liked. There are some chapters from her parents point of view which raise even more questions. The book ends with some unanswered questions as it is the first in a series. Overall I found it really interesting and it was a fairly quick read.
The book was very clean.
This book was reviewed on the Literary Club Podcast Season 2 episode 15
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1984185… (mere)