Murder at Kom Ombo
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Dr. Jamie Madison is a beautiful and brilliant but reclusive young mathematics professor whose wealthy grandfather has recently died and left her a whopping fortune with a few interesting strings attached. In order to coax her out of her mathematical personality into the real world of feelings and gray areas, the grandfather has required her to tour several foreign countries with tour groups made up of regular people. She selects Egypt for her first tour, and from the beginning, she’s involved in a series of adventures and misadventures, including being followed by a mysterious Egyptian man who, she fears, is trying to kill her, the advances of an aging Lothario who meets his end in a grisly murder in an ancient Egyptian temple, and a love affair with the police inspector sent to investigate the murder. She employs her field of knowledge—the mathematics of probability—and her reasoning skills to assist the inspector in the murder investigation. But solving the mystery of who killed Richard Whitsome is the easy part; unraveling the tangle of emotions stirred up in her by the charismatic Inspector Al Saladan causes her to question her own identity and the very nature of truth itself. First in the Jaime Madison mystery series.
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THE PROFESSOR
Dr. Jamie Madison— very beautiful, very brilliant, and very, very rich— but once out of her comfort zone, is she a match for the charismatic Inspector Al Saladan?
THE INSPECTOR
Henri— shrewd and capable, he’s called upon to investigate the brutal murder of an American tourist…but he hasn’t bargained on falling in love with the headstrong professor Madison….
…and a supporting cast of characters with questionable pasts
— and mysterious presents:
...handsome Richard Whitsome, an aging Lothario who meets his gruesome end at the ancient Egyptian temple of Kom Ombo. His wife, Marion, has always bailed him out of his peccadilloes— until now….
….the David Nivenish Sam and his glib wife, Liz— and their secrets….
….the Santa Barbara socialites— are they hiding behind a façade or just plain weird?
….the old woman— at eighty, she chain smokes, guzzles whiskey— and packs a pistol….
….young, fragile, hauntingly beautiful Tamara— why did she leave the Church?
….a good, American blue collar couple with violence in their past and uncertainty in their present….
….all meet in the searing heat of Egypt in a murder mystery that tests young Jaime Madison’s faith in her emotional self, her newfound friends, and the meaning of truth itself.
About the Author
James Stewart has traveled extensively and is currently planning his third tour of Egypt. He is a retired Professor of English and lives with his wife, Dawn, and their four cats, Hero, Jenny, Gracie, and Tony in Medford, Oregon.