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    Search the Shadows

    By Barbara Michaels

    3.5/5

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    Haskell Maloney was cruelly orphaned when she was just a baby. Now, twenty-two years later, she receives confirmation of the bitter truth she always suspected: the fallen war hero whose name she shares was not her father. Her quest for answers—and a personal history—brings Haskell to the famed Oriental Institute in Chicago, a city in which her mother lived and thrived before her strange, untimely death. But by rummaging around in the darkness, Haskell's exposing much more than she bargained for. And now she's racing against the clock to discover who she really is . . . and why someone is suddenly determined to kill her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061861888
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    Barbara Michaels

    Elizabeth Peters (writing as Barbara Michaels) was born and brought up in Illinois and earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. Peters was named Grandmaster at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986, Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America at the Edgar® Awards in 1998, and given The Lifetime Achievement Award at Malice Domestic in 2003. She lives in an historic farmhouse in western Maryland.

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    • 3/5
      Written in 1987 and a bit dated in style this is a suspense/romance involving a young woman's search for her unknown father. The main character, Haskell, is a student of Egyptology, and the book includes lots of Egyptology references. Haskell, raised by a maiden aunt, explores her deceased Mother's last days in an effort to discover who her father is.
    • 2/5
      I like many of Barbara Michaels' works, but I found this one a chore to complete and unsatisfying once done. Haskell's motivations were never realistic for me, and the secondary characters didn't really have any motivations at all - they just showed up on occasion to nudge Haskell in one direction or another, and then compliantly disappeared. There was no actual delving into history or archaeology - just the mention of a few artifacts and some throw-away stories about early 20th century archaeology. The plot took forever to set up, and then settled in and went no place. **Warning: May Contain Spoilers** Haskell finds out that the man she had thought was her biological father (but whom she'd never met or cared at all about) might not have been actually. This upsets her dramatically, causing her to ditch her fiance & family, drive to another city, and get a low-level job in a museum to try to find her real father (who might have worked in that area... maybe). She dithers, visits her aunts, leaves her aunts, pokes around a bit for no particular reason, dates a bunch of uninteresting guys, draws some completely unwarranted conclusions, does a bunch of shopping, bitches about how boring the job is, mopes a bit, gets mild threats from random people - and (thinks that she) figures out who her father is!!! You'd think she'd be all excited and everything, but nah. She just wanted a name. Then, in the last ten pages or so, a bunch of people chase her around the deserted museum, try to kill her, and reveal all the real answers to the mysteries (including a mystery that was never even really introduced). Then she makes an out-of-the-blue and frankly really creepy choice of love interest. The plot could have been tolerable with a more likable heroine and with almost everything except the beginning and end cut out. As it is, this was one for the dustbin to me.
    • 4/5
      Interesting enough while reading it, but I guessed some, although not all, of whodunit. The brief mentions of Egyptology were more interesting than the story. There is a character reminiscent of Amelia Peabody's husband.
    • 3/5
      The plot was hokey and full of holes and yet I enjoyed it thoroughly. Mixed in with the mystery of who is Haskell's real father and how did her mother die is some nice discussion on the Amarna period.
    • 3/5
      I have enjoyed this book several times through the past few years but I found it a little less appealing lately. I realized I really don't like the heroine. I find the setting and subject quite interesting. The storyline is good. The heroine is self-righteous and judgmental. I love Barbara Michaels but this one is a little way down the list.
    • 2/5
      I like many of Barbara Michaels' works, but I found this one a chore to complete and unsatisfying once done. Haskell's motivations were never realistic for me, and the secondary characters didn't really have any motivations at all - they just showed up on occasion to nudge Haskell in one direction or another, and then compliantly disappeared. There was no actual delving into history or archaeology - just the mention of a few artifacts and some throw-away stories about early 20th century archaeology. The plot took forever to set up, and then settled in and went no place. **Warning: May Contain Spoilers** Haskell finds out that the man she had thought was her biological father (but whom she'd never met or cared at all about) might not have been actually. This upsets her dramatically, causing her to ditch her fiance & family, drive to another city, and get a low-level job in a museum to try to find her real father (who might have worked in that area... maybe). She dithers, visits her aunts, leaves her aunts, pokes around a bit for no particular reason, dates a bunch of uninteresting guys, draws some completely unwarranted conclusions, does a bunch of shopping, bitches about how boring the job is, mopes a bit, gets mild threats from random people - and (thinks that she) figures out who her father is!!! You'd think she'd be all excited and everything, but nah. She just wanted a name. Then, in the last ten pages or so, a bunch of people chase her around the deserted museum, try to kill her, and reveal all the real answers to the mysteries (including a mystery that was never even really introduced). Then she makes an out-of-the-blue and frankly really creepy choice of love interest. The plot could have been tolerable with a more likable heroine and with almost everything except the beginning and end cut out. As it is, this was one for the dustbin to me.
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite books, Barbara Michaels shows the world of Egyptology in an interesting way. Haskell Maloney discovers that her father wasn't hers biologically. So, she sets out to find out the identity of her real father, as well as figure out if her mother's death was really an accident. The story is compellling, as well as humorous. It's a great, fun novel!