Elizabeth Peters is Barbara Michaels is actually Barbara Mertz, who has also written two excellent books on ancient Egypt, Red Land, Black Land and Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs.
Is *that* what happened to Barbara Mertz? But she must be ancient. Those books came out forty years ago....
....and given what she thought of Ramses II, which took five vitriolic pages to express, why on earth is Amelia's son called Ramses? which always struck me as batshit anyway.
