Das Eishaus (The Ice House)/ Die Bildhauerin (The Sculptress) Book

October, 2018: This time on audio, my new favorite of the Jacqueline Kirby mysteries because of all the publishers/authors fun that Peters put in, and her capitulation to her desire to depict Jacqueline Kirby as a sassier alter-ego for herself. There are some dropped threads here and the solution is not entirely fair but JK is much kinder than she has been in previous books so I liked it better. Read by Grace Conlin on Hoopla audio accessed through my public library.

2013: Jacqueline Kirby has become a best-selling author and she hopes to write a sequel to a missing author's big hit. This is very funny, although not as entertaining as Die for Love.

I am trying to decide if the reason I like JK least of Elizabeth Peters's series heroines is that Jake is so self-assured as to be annoying to me (I suspect anyone who is so sure of herself to be a bully, which may not be fair) or because the characterization is so much thinner than in the Amelia books. I liked JK better as a librarian than as an author.

Missing Elizabeth Peters already. Also worth noting: JK does the Kindly Brontosaurus so recently promoted in Slate! Naturally it gets her what she wants. Kirby always wins.