A Cold Touch of Ice (Mamur Zapt, Book 13)

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In this classic murder mystery from Michael Pearces award-winning series, set in the Egypt of the 1900s, the Mamur Zapt investigates the murder of an Italian man in the backstreets of Cairo.
Cairo, 1908. When an Italian man is murdered in the citys back streets, there is concern that this could be some kind of ethnic cleansing. Were the guns in his warehouse anything to do with it Gareth Owen the Mamur Zapt has to find out fast.

And then there are other difficult questions. What are Trudi von Ramsberg and Gertrude Bell really doing in Cairo As the Mamur Zapt is drawn deeper into the investigation, hes not the only one who has problems over where his allegiance lies

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Praise for Michael Pearce:

Pearce takes apart ancient history and reassembles it with beguiling wit and colour Sunday Times

Marvellously convoluted Dryly and deeply funny Literary Review

Highly recommended Sunday Telegraph

Pearces secret policeman is implausibly likeable TLS

This is high comedy from a practiced hand. The control is effortless, the wit as sharp as in Death of an Effendi The Times

Author Bio

Michael Pearce grew up in the (then) Anglo-Egyptian Sudan among the various tensions he draws on for his award-winning Mamur Zapt series. He returned there to teach, and retains a human rights interest in the area. In between whiles his career has followed the standard academic rakes progress from teaching to writing to editing to administration. He finds international politics a pallid imitation of academic ones. He lives in London. He is now a full-time writer. He was awarded the Crime Writers Associations prestigious Last Laugh Award for funniest crime novel of the year for the Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt. Michael Pearce is also the author of the crime novels featuring Dmitri Kameron, set in Tsarist Russia of the 1890s.